Arabic-L:PEDA:Search by root capability added to ReadVerse site

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Date: 17 Aug 2008
From:Mahmoud Elsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Search by root capability added to ReadVerse site

Arabic word root a new Search Internet engine breakthrough

ReadVerse Company of Westminster, CA is pleased to announce an  
important enhancement to its software search engine for retrieving  
information from its proprietary, Internet-based database of the  
complete Koran.  Formerly, visitors were able to search the entire  
Koran by one word, two words, and topic.  Now, with this important  
innovation visitors will be able to search the entire Holy Koran by  
the root of an Arabic word.  Arabic words are generally based on a  
root that uses a few consonants to define the underlying construction  
and the meaning of different words. Various vowels, prefixes and  
suffixes are used with the root letters to create the desired  
inflection of other words with different meanings.  Each set of root  
letters can lead to a vast number of words, all predictable in form  
and all related to the basic group of the few consonant root letters.

With this new enhancement when a visitor types the root of a word, the  
software will render all derivatives of that word as used in the  
entire Holy Koran.  Thus, if a visitor types ر  ح  م
(rhm), the software will pull over 65 different words from all of the  
verses having these words along with a listing of each of the verses  
with its respective sura and verse numbers that are derivatives of the  
same root. This means that once students learn one root, they can  
increase their vocabulary by over 65 words - a powerful way to  
increase the vocabulary of Arabic and Koran-learning students.

If a student does not know the root of a word, he or she can type that  
word and the software will render all verses and suras that have this  
particular word along its root. Once the root is known, the student  
can type the desired root, and the software will render all suras and  
verses that have this root.

For additional information, please contact ReadVerse at: http://www.readverse.com/

Mahmoud Elsayess, President
Read~Verse
melsayess at socal.rr.com
Mahmoud Elsayess

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