[Corpora-List] "Tajweed" in English dictionaries and corpora

[Otto Lassen]

Hi All

On Friday, March 08, 2013 Jim Fidelholtz wrote

So, although I've never used the word before this discussion, 'tajwid' is an English word. At least for now. Ask me again next year. Meanwhile, it probably does not belong in most dictonaries, at least not yet.





I don’t think you (or most english speaking people) have used “kafir” neither or other words from the islamic vocabulary which are included in OED.

You would not have included “kafir” in OED or what? 

I see only one reason for the inclusion: OED makes the decision from the meaning of the words and from their cultural and political importance to the english society. It seems to me that when the discussion focuses on the use of words it is not the number of the users which counts but the weight of the semantic of the words. This applies particularly to the type of words discussed here, words for religious phenomenons. 

Otto Lassen
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