Arabic-L:LING:Proper names which have lost the Al- prefix

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1) Subject: Proper names which have lost the Al- prefix

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Date: 23 Sep 2010
From: Mai Zaki <maizaki at gmail.com>
Subject: Proper names which have lost the Al- prefix

Hello everyone,

First thanks a lot for the all the responses I got about transcription fonts. 

I want to ask this time about examples of proper names in Arabic that are attached with the definite marker al-. I know this was maybe more common in pre-Islamic and Islamic eras, but I am interested in examples of names which had al as part of it in those days but then in modern times lost the al, such as الشيماء     شيماء. Do you know more examples like this?

Thanks a lot.

Mai Zaki
Middlesex University

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