<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Thu 12 May 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: hundred<br>2) Subject: hundred<br><br><div>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 12 May 2011<br>From: <a href="mailto:hanadaster@GMAIL.COM">hanadaster@GMAIL.COM</a> <br>Subject: hundred<br><br><div>According to Mukhtaar AlSihah, the word is correctly written مائة but</div><div>pronounced as مئة</div><div><br></div><div>Tahiyyati,</div><div>hanada</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>2)<br>Date: 12 May 2011<br>From: Miguel Á. Manzano Rodríguez <<a href="mailto:mglmanzano@ono.com">mglmanzano@ono.com</a>><br>Subject: hundred<br><br></div><div><div>Dear Colleagues:</div><div>Prof Ulrich Haarmann ('An Eleven Century Précis of Arabic Ortography', <a href="http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4803/">http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4803/</a>) offers an explanation according to the Arabic linguistic tradition: "mi'a" is written with an alif to differenciate it from "minhu", which is very common.</div><div>Best regards and wishes,</div><div>Miguel Á. Manzano</div><div>(<a href="mailto:mglmanzano@ono.com">mglmanzano@ono.com</a>)</div><div>(<a href="mailto:mmanzano@usal.es">mmanzano@usal.es</a>)</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos</div><div>Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Salamanca</div><div>Plaza de Anaya s/n 37008 - Salamanca</div><div>Teléfono: 923 294400 / ext. 1766</div><div><a href="http://web.usal.es/mmanzano">http://web.usal.es/mmanzano</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 12 May 2011</div></body></html>