Tuesday, 13 November 2012

pentagon=البنتاغون


pentagon=البنتاغون
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:pentagon (n.)
plane figure with five angles and five sides, 1560s, from M.Fr. pentagone or directly from L.L. pentagonum "pentagon," from Gk. pentagonon, noun use of neuter of adjective pentagonos "five-angled," from pente "five" (see five) + gonia "angle" (see knee (n.)). The U.S. military headquarters Pentagon was completed 1942, so called for its shape; used allusively for "U.S. military leadership" from 1945. Related: Pentagonal.
 
 
 
 

palladium=بلاديوم

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palladium=بلاديوم
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:palladium (n.2) 

metallic element, coined 1803 by discoverer William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), from Pallas, name of an asteroid discovered the previous year (by German astronomer Olbers) and named for the goddess (see Pallas).
Pallas 

Greek goddess' name, lit. "little maiden," related to pallake "concubine," and probably somehow connected to Avestan pairika "beautiful women seducing pious men."
palladium (n.1) 
"safeguard," c.1600, originally (late 14c.) "sacred image of Pallas Athene," from L. palladium, from Gk. Palladion, noun use of neuter of Palladios "of Pallas." It stood in the citadel of Troy and the safety of the city was believed to depend on it.




methodology=ميتودولجيا


methodology=ميتودولجيا

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY: methodology (n.)
1800, from Fr. méthodologie or directly from Mod.L. methodologia; see method + -ology.
method (n.)
early 15c., "regular, systematic treatment of disease," from L. methodus "way of teaching or going," from Gk. methodos "scientific inquiry, method of inquiry, investigation," originally "pursuit, a following after," from meta- "after" (see meta-) + hodos "a traveling, way" (see cede). Meaning "way of doing anything" is from 1580s; that of "orderliness, regularity" is from 1610s. In reference to a theory of acting associated with Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky, it is attested from 1923.
-ology
word-forming element indicating "branch of knowledge, science," now the usual form of -logy. Originally used c.1800 in nonce formations (commonsensology, etc.), it gained legitimacy by influence of the proper formation in geology, mythology, etc., where the -o- is a stem vowel in the previous element. 
 
 
 

cyclops= صقلوب, سكلوبس

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cyclops= صقلوب, سكلوبس

WIKIPEDIA: A cyclops /ˈsklɒps/; Greek: Κύκλωψ, Kuklōps; plural cyclopes /sˈklpz/; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kuklōpes), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead.[1] The name is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed"
Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil.






Sunday, 11 November 2012

Dragon=دراجون




Dragon=دراجون
(dragoun) is a trade mark in Arabic and derives from the greek language.
Etymology of the word dragon:

Wiktionary: From Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drakōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δρακεῖν (drakein), aorist active infinitive of δέρκομαι (derkomai, “I see clearly”).

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
dragon (n.)
early 13c., from O.Fr. dragon, from L. draconem (nom. draco) "huge serpent, dragon," from Gk. drakon (gen. drakontos) "serpent, giant seafish," apparently from drak-, strong aorist stem of derkesthai "to see clearly," from PIE *derk- "to see." Perhaps the lit. sense is "the one with the (deadly) glance." The young are dragonets (14c.). Obsolete drake "dragon" is an older borrowing of the same word. Used in the Bible to translate Heb. tannin "a great sea-monster," and tan, a desert mammal now believed to be the jackal.



Saturday, 10 November 2012

Pythagoras=فيثاغورس

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                                  PYTHAGORAS = فيثاغورس
(Fithagoras) wellknown Greek to Arab scholars during the period 8th-12th centuries A.D. when they translated his works and the works of many other Greek Philosophers.

WIKIPEDIA:
Pythagoras of Samos (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος [Πυθαγόρης in Ionian Greek] Pythagóras ho Sámios "Pythagoras the Samian", or simply Πυθαγόρας; b. about 570 – died about 495 BC)[1][2] was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism.