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вязь — meaning in English

vyaz

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English meaning

  • Arabic name A major Semitic language spoken across the Middle East and North Africa, with many regional dialects and a shared formal written form.
  • ligature noun A cord, thread, or wire used to tie something tightly, especially to close off a blood vessel in surgery.

Senses

вязь is used for these senses in English:

  • Arabic A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa.
  • Arabic The Aramaic-derived script used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.
  • ligature (countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.

Arabic — full definition

  1. name A major Semitic language spoken across the Middle East and North Africa, with many regional dialects and a shared formal written form.
  2. adj Relating to the Arabic language or its script; also used for the standard "0-9" digit system (Arabic numerals), which actually reached Europe via Arab scholars rather than being invented by them.

ligature — full definition

  1. noun A cord, thread, or wire used to tie something tightly, especially to close off a blood vessel in surgery.
  2. noun A character formed by joining two or more letters into a single glyph, such as æ.

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