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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5676229" data-attributes="member: 59506">Well, first some disclaimers: I don't speak or read Arabic. I've been using a few sites for tranlsations and understanding of grammar and structure. Whatever I come up with is probably just an educated guess at best. If it sounds good, I'd use it. But if you said the same thing to someone who speaks Arabic, it might be right or they might laugh at you (the latter is probably the most likely<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />). But, this is some of the ideas I came up with:  The Arabic noun and verb (same word) for throwing (same for throw, dispose, discard, to throw, etc.) in latin characters is: elqa' - Arabic has Verbal Nouns much like English. So I believe one could use this word all by itself for any throwable object as the English equivalent of "a thrower" - i.e. a version of any object that can be used thrown. To make the word an adjective, one adds the feminine suffix ah, but remembering that adjectives come after the noun in Arabic. So, a throwing _____ becomes _____-elqa'ah. The noun for dagger is: khnjr (seems to be related to kindjal to me...) The noun for knife is: skyn The noun for axe is: alfas  The above are generic words. Jambiya means dagger also, but denotes a specific type of dagger.  So, one should be able to tack on -elqa'ah to the end of any weapon name to make it a throwing version. Such as khnjr-elqa'ah for throwing dagger, etc.  The sites I used are: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_grammar" target="_blank">Arabic grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> for understanding structure and grammar. <a href="http://www.stars21.com/translator/english_to_latin.html" target="_blank">Stars21</a> is an awesome translator site. Has a huge selection of languages and converts from English to other languages, and other languages to English (not just one way). The downside is that sometimes translations are only in the native languages script (Arabic script, Chinese script, etc.). There's also just good ole <a href="http://translate.google.com/?hl=en" target="_blank">Google Translate</a>, but it has the same limitations as pertains to script as the above site (the above site uses a lot of different translation sites though, including Google Translate). And lastly, this site: <a href="http://mylanguages.org/arabic_romanization.php" target="_blank">Arabic Converter - Romanization Transliteration</a>, comverts Arabic script into Latin characters (English). Though with some words you may need to add some vowels to make it phonetically readable. It helps to listen to the pronunciation on one of the translation sites, then add whatever you need by way of vowels to make it phonetically pronouncable to our English speaking tongues. Also, here's a decent Arab Etymological Dictionary <a href="http://www.freeweb.hu/etymological/AEDweb.htm" target="_blank">http://www.freeweb.hu/etymological/AEDweb.htm</a>. Unfortunately though, it's only listed by Arabic word (in Latinized script) and isn't cross-referenced with an English list. And lastly, a site with lists of some other useful sites: <a href="http://www.lexilogos.com/english/arabic_dictionary.htm" target="_blank">http://www.lexilogos.com/english/arabic_dictionary.htm</a>  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></blockquote>

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