Arabia's Names Explained
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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Arabia Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/Arabia
Saudi Arabia History: www.mofa.gov.sa/en/ksa/Pages/...
Saudi Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/Saudi
Riyadh Etymology: www.britannica.com/place/Riyadh
Kuwait Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/Kuwait
Qurain: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qurain_...
Bahrain Etymology: www.britannica.com/place/Bahrain
Manama Etymology: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manama
Qatar Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/Qatar
Doha Etymology: turuhi.com/story/a-city-where...
Emirate Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/emir
Abu Dhabi Etymology: www.gonomad.com/6460-abu-dhab...
Oman Etymology: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman
Muscat Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/muscat
Yemen Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/Yemen
What nations of the Arabian Peninsular have you been to?
why do you upload every two days?
I'm an Egyptian who lives in Saudi Arabia
Qatar, under similar circumstances to your "visit"
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6:58 “Ameer” means Prince. And “emirate” pronounced as E-Marat (plural) in Arabic it means principalities. So UAE is bunch of united principalities that formed a one country!
United Kingdom of Britain
United States of America
United States of Mexico
United Principalities of Arabia
@@modmaker7617 United Latin Emirates
i see what you did there lol@@myspleenisbursting4825
"2myr/أمير" comes from the verb "2mara/أمر" following a template of Hyperbole "Fa3yl/فعيل"
The verb means to command, and since the noun is in the Hyperbole template, it literally means "One who commands a lot"
Amir initially means a commander
hello, i am from oman and i got a few notes
the name Oman never came from persia
the persians called us "mazoon" due to the seasonal rivers but the name is now used by a dairy company here.
while we don't know where the name came from there are 2 possibilities
1- a tribe from al-azd
2- a wadi in yemen
Very interesting comment! Please provide more background! شكرًا
I also read a few theories that also make sense.
Since Muscat مسقط means the place where something is, like مسقط الرأس means place of birth; some say it means that it falls inside of the mountains, or that it is where valleys fall.
Also some say that when the Sahaba went to it everyone was silent so it was named مسكت then it changed over time to Muscat.
Whenever this guy speaks on Arabic he gets it wrong. Makes me feel he's a fraud in the languages I don't know
@@felixskinner111 well mostly comes part to not many information online about Oman or most Arab countries
Omans most ancient name was Maggan/Majan this was what the area was known by the Sumerians and Babylonians .
This is probably around 2500BC-1800BC and the area was known for its rich copper and metal deposits and good quality ships and was a stop for traders from Babylonia and Elamites on their way to Meluhha or the Indus Valley civilisation.
A major city in Saudi Arabia, Jeddah (where I live in), means “grandmother” in Arabic
Grandmother means’s jaddah
But the city it’s Jeddah
Yes Eva (Wife of Prophet Adam A.S) is buried there that's why it is called Jeddah.
@@SaadAlisArt Hawaa2, you mean right?
Yes, in English her name is Eve@@IGCSENERD-up6yv
@@teehee4096 oh ok
It's rather ironic that "Qatar" derives from oil. It's the one country in the region that doesn't get its wealth from petroleum, but from natural gas.
Well its an ancient name so it could have more oil close to the surface that the ancients could easily found compared to the rest of Arabia.
Manama is called the place of sleep, because travelers (from south to north) would sleep there before catching a boat to Muharraq (island) the following morning.
8:31 Arab mapmakers put East at the top rather than North, hence the name origin here
More education for whoever wants to learn:
-Magical lamps and (A 1000 and 1 Nights and Flying carpets) don't signify Arabia, they are Iraq's golden age culture.
-There are NO elephants in the Arabic deserts.
-Dates, Falcons, Swords, Dallah, Fishing and Knights signify Arabia or as they are known "Gulf countries"
-The Arabic peninsula is multi-cultural. Desert culture, Turkish culture, Syrian culture, African culture, Uzbek and Kurdish cultures.
-Native people from Bedouins are the Āl Saud family, their family tree goes back to over 1500 years ago, and Native Urban people are the ones who live in Mecca and Medina.
-The Arabic peninsula was a very poor country, their food was only dates, fresh laban and water.
No Elephants but Camels... Elephants mostly in Africa and India
The “multi-cultural” part of arabia is only confined to jeddah and mecca due to their religious significance, the rest of the peninsula is very homogeneous.
There is no Turkish or Kurdish cultures in Arabia lol, and the house of Saud are not bedouins because bedouin means nomads in Arabic, they are urbans
Saud is 2 syllables, sa-ood.
7:37 the Sultan of Zanzibar lives in Oman now. That's just where he lives.
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Zanzibar was once a colony of Oman.
And Zanzibar was a slave market. Oman abolished slavery in 1975 or a bit later. Rather gruesome stories about the former sultan.
"Aden/عدن" does not mean the "Place or the Plain" it is the Arabic word for the Garden of Eden, which the city is named after.
This is more of an explanation of the englishized version of the names of these places. But the explanation at the end about how you didnt wanna talk about this part of the world explains why there is a general lack of research and blantant mispronouncuations without any attempts to rectify it.
Agreed
Absolutely.
ajama - "to mumble, and speak indistinctly"
araba - "to speak clearly"
Similar to the Japanese use of Gaijin for outsiders, or the original Greek meaning behind Barbarian.
The Slavic name for Germans means "those who can't speak". "Deutsch" itself is awfully close to "deutlich", which means clear, intelligible.
A Saudi here! You did a pretty great job, the KSA part was perfect!
There are a couple of notes I'd like to add:
- in Bahrain, it does indeed mean Two seas, but I've heard its due to a spring of sweet water that is pumping in the middle of the salt sea somewhere near the island.
- Yemen does indeed refer to (the right side) as opposed to left. But it isn't in the context of Arabia's geography, it's in the context of Kaabah! The holiest place in Islam.
Ka'abah has a corner stone called The Black Rock on one of it's corners, the next corner to the right of it is called (Al-Rukn Al-Yamani, The Right Corner), if you draw a straight line from that corner you will end up in the land of Yemen, the land on the Right of the Ka'abah.
Your videos are amazing! I really enjoy word origins, and you make them so fun!
Bahrain is a very old name. It only recently referred to the small island nation. It used to refer to the entirety of the eastern region of the peninsula. There are many theories to what it might refer to:
-the region encompasses the water of the Persian gulf and the yellow lake in Al-ahsaa (now saudi)
-the main island (referred to as awal island in the past) being situated between the Persian gulf and the Arabian desert
-the area between Al-qatif and al-ahsaa (now Saudi) is abundant in water wells and close to the gulf too
-the main awal island having deep water wells that were names a sea in their own right along side the gulf itself.
It’s impossible to know the true origin but the region always has been named after the sea in the oldest texts found.
Do you know what the difference is between Dubai, and Abu Dhabi? The people in Dubai don't like The Flintstones. The people in Abu Dhabi do.
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In biblical Hebrew the cardinal directions are looking east - to the sun rise:
Kadima (froward) is east - until today eastern winds are called by this name
Yamina (right) is south
Akhora (backward) is west - the Mediterranean is sometimes call the "last sea" which means the sea behind you
I have not seen left used as north but it probably was
Yes, In Arabic as well we use the word Yemen for Right (Yamen) or (Yemen) as the country name for South.
And for North, (Shamal). For Left (Shemal), and the opposite of Yemen which also means North (Sham) akA (Shem in Hebrow), (The Levantine)
The name of Oman have nothing to do with persia, they (persians) even didn’t can pronounce it correctly because it contains ع letter which is an exclusive to semitic langueges
Yemen also means lucky. Compare with ben-yamin, son of good fortune, who was a son of Jacob, in the Bible. Arabia Felix, Arabia Yemen.
The right as a direction has many positive meanings in Arabic, it means good fortune too
When I think Arabia, I picture my ex husband. He's Jordanian, and last I heard lived in Dubai with his 4th wife & 2 daughters from his 2nd marriage. Before I met him, of course, I had the images you mentioned, so, yup!
Sorry but as a tribal arabian and student of Arabian history, Yemen was called Yemen since it’s on the right side of the kaaba in Mecca.
من الديره يا سلطان؟
How is it on "the right side?" The Kaaba is a cube and any location could be considered on its right.
@@teehee4096 right means east
Yaman being 'right' makes more sense if you remember that maps used to have east upwards, which is why we have the term 'orientate' which reflects how the orient was at the top
Cover Syria or the Levante in a video
You missed a few details, and some weren't exact, but that's generally pretty good.
The i at the end of Saudi indicates a relativity the Saud.
Muscat relates to the verb "sakata" with means to fall. Which might make sense if the ground is lower than the surrounding area. That probably makes more sense than hiding. Another think there is an arabic expression "maskat ra's" which means home town (the literal translation is "where [their] head fell", in reference to getting born).
Amir means prince or commander depending on the situation. The UAE works more like a group of principalities. They got united because they can ve stronger this way than if they were independent. Qatar and Bahrain were supposed to be part of the union, but then changed their minds.
Those are the ones that I noticed. A lot of the names are in the local dialect, which I'm not very familiar with.
Fun fact: the arabic name for Saudi Arabia means the "the saudi arabic kingdom" (with saudi being for Al-Saud what british is for Britain). While the english name sounds like "the Arabia of Al-Saud".
Bahrain comes from al'bahrain, which historically was a region stretching from the edge of basrah (modern day kuwait+the iraqi coastline) all the way to the historical region of Oman (historically including the region now known as the UAE and the iranian island of Hormuz)
I heard from various sources that Oman got its name from an older Arabic name meaning mother, Om or Umm
6:13 As long as it's not Katara from ATLA, everything's alright
Aden and Sana’a were at one time simultaneous Yemeni capitals, back when the country was split into North and South (or Arab Republic and People’s Democratic Republic, respectively). The two nations unified into the current Republic of Yemen in 1990.
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The origin of arab (العرب)
Goes back to the meaning of people eloquent in speech (يعرُب)
And the word (يعرُب) is actually a name of the a guy who is the origin of most tribes
Bahrain is a very wonder country it doesn’t feel smalll like the size of a us state county, Manama is busy but it’s not super crazy
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“According to Wikipedia….”
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@@User-xh5zuLove this channel, but Wikipedia is not generally considered a reputable place to share from.
Sure, it's something you can incorporate from if you have multiple sources, but a research channel should be dubious when highlighting information that is only sourced from Wikipedia.
That being said, maybe that was what was meant when he shared Wikipedia as a source.
I think Manama is related to the hebrew root N.A.M ( נ.ע.ם) which is used to convey comfort or pleasure.
i.e Naim li (נעים לי) = I'm comfortable.
There's also the Hebrew word Manaamim (מנעמים) = delicacies which is extremely close in meaning and form to Manama.
6:09 Because you’re an adult with a dirty mind! 😏
So why does everybody pronounce Qatar as 'Cutter'?
That is closer to the correct pronunciation, not "kuh-taar"
Because that's the closest pronunciation to the real one. Ka-taaaarrrr isn't
It's how Qatar is officially said, ka-tarrr is the westerner pronunciation that caught on.
Because in Arabic, the two A's are actually short vowels, like the u sound in cutter, or the o sound in money
Because they cant pronounce correct Q
Manama, as you stated it means the place of rest ( Manam), it’s called like this as in old times Bahrain ( was called - Awal/ Delmon/ Taylos) used to be a heaven on Earth and visited by many for resting and vecation( therefore a place to have a good rest sleep 😅)
Also It’s said , ( Manam is taken from Manamat) which means tall buildings as traders and sailors used to call out the name once they see it and it’s a sign they hv reached the island - Bahrain was one of the main ports in the silk and spices road )
Thank you for the video 😊
Will this video be any good? Just Kuwait and see
" Manama" came from the word "Manamah," it means his sleeping/ his sleep 😊 they guess because it is in the north, and usually, when the wind is coming from the north, it is cold one. So we guess someone used to sleep there in summer for a better whether 😊
Kuwait is a derivative from the word "koot," which means "Fort. But when we say Kuwait, we mean a small fort.
Saidi Arabia is the ne I'm familiar with since my OC is from there.
Historically, Bahrain was the name of the whole eastern part of the arabian peninsula, so the "two seas" could refer to both arabian gulf and arabian sea,
As for why the name in Modren day refer only to the modren island nation of Bahrain, that i don't know about.
As for qatar, the name is actually very old although not famous, so i wouldn't tie it with oil, one famous figure from umayyad state is called "Qatari" and he came from the place where the modren Qatar is, his name probably referring to the land itself.
5:11 The Muppets had a skit about Bahrain's capital: th-cam.com/video/QTXyXuqfBLA/w-d-xo.html 😁
Mentioning 'controversies' is definitely out of place. The west has its fair share of not only human right violations, but outright genocide, but you won't mention Vietnam when talking about USA, or apologize about the congo genocide when talking about Belgum, or the abuse of Western Africa by the French.
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what can you say, they control the media. All narratives especially about the Middle East are theirs - the West's. You are terrorists and stupid, and they are the victims. They dont care about your lives. nor vietnamese, nor afghans nor black south africans
I've been to UAE many times travelling as a sole female.
in the arabic language ''Arabs'' means those who can speak
Arab means "one who can speak CLEARLY" not just one who can speak
"We need to name our country, what's something unique about our nation?" "It's... a place?"
It’s ironic that the word “arable” sounds like “arab/ia” which you’ll mostly relate to sand/dessert in terms of geography
Am I the only one tinking of Muppet Show when I hear Manama?
I'm pretty sure Saudi comes from the adjective of saud. (add an i and bam its an adjective) Amrika:America -> Amriki: American
I've always thought Arabia Petraea comes from Petra, the city.
Petra also comes from “rock” in Greek (like Peter).
@@andrewmole745Petra in Arabic means amputated or conclusive, this word is mentioned in the Quran as well, as the “conclusive” argument.
I can't unhear the qalqalah at the end of every sentence you say
So people in arabia are called arabs but the area is arabian?
Talk about the controversies in england and the rest of europe. Talk about the human rights violations, mistreatment of immigrants, women, minorities, journalists, and others all across england and europe
I can't wait for the Iraq and Levant video
What about the Kingdom of Bahrain? That's an Arabic country, right?
Awesome video!!
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What is Arabia called in Turkish: "Arabistan". Yeah, Saudi Arabia is a Stan country in Turkish, "Suudi Arabistan".
@@khaledhammood5879 in English the -stan countries are concentrated in Central Asia + Pakistan, but in Turkish we have more of them from Hungary to Mongolia.
I don't think suudi arabistan is in central Asia to call it a Stan country
Turks know nothing about history, they brought this from their bags. It is a half African peninsula and it is in west Asia
@@Fares.SA37-4 neither is Greece (Yunanistan) or Hungary (Macaristan). This is a suffix of Persian origin that is used in country names in Turkish. It’s not confined to a region. Persian has more in their language. Even England is a -stan country in that language.
@@Fares.SA37-4It have nothing with Africa
It is like saying Turkey and Russia are the same
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You’ve explained the names of the us,Croatia,Japan,many African nations,Germany,the uk and many more countries the committed and keep committing awful human rights violation,but you never thought of pointing that out except when it came to Arab countries, I see looking through the glasses of European entitlement really fogs up your vison
Thank you for mentioning this!
I was lookin for this comment. Like the dude wasnt even been to Arabia except a shory stopover in Qatar. You can sense the horse excrement on this video
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Aden "عدن" mean a Green Garden, "place".
Nah, I don't care about the etymology of Yemen.
I will continue to think that the founders came along and said ye man, this land will do
As a yemeni same
Kuwait is so small. One day it'll probably just decide to become a part of Iraq anyway. What do you think?
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KUDOS!! A very informative, fun and entertaining video!!!😊👍👍👍
A lot of false information tho
شكرا، ولكن ما هي المعلومات الخاطئة؟ على سبيل المثال...؟@@Zaabi
@@carlosacta8726 what info you want?
I watched the whole video and I was missing the thing that I've always heard and watch in Western media then I said to myself no this is not a mainstream media it's just a TH-camr, but at the end somehow I don't get what's the relationship between geography and etymology and human rights abuses as you said! I don't defend these countries I'm not from the Arabian peninsula but it bothers me westerners always act orientalist and lecture us about human rights and these stuffs just to feel good about themselves
see-ah city-ah watehh two-ahh. You have some strange vocal irregularities my dude.
Also the youtube limit for mid-rolls is 8 minutes now.
Yeah, I agree. Vocals are pretty bad. Seems like he's trying to put on a presenter voice without knowing how to. His voice is fine though, should just speak normally, and it'd sound a lot better.
Spot on
That's just his accent, I don't think it's really an issue.
It's rich your bringing up controversy's when the UK has done loads of terrible stuff and is equally unapologetic about it.
He's of Irish descent... are you really going to lecture him about what the UK has done?
@@teehee4096 Lecture him no.. I'm not his dad. Since Ireland was and is a part of the "UK" as in United Kingdom that makes him also complicit in all the horrible shit they have done.
Simply inaccurate and extremely offensive 🤔
Not that inaccurate
Could you please elaborate on what’s inaccurate here?
The only thing I saw that’s incorrect is the origin of Bahrain’s name?
@@kimothefungenuis It is inaccurate
Catar is also a build up of mucus😪
That's spelled, "catarrh".
Why do people always not care abt the levants😢
Kuwait is pronounced “kyoowate”, and Cuba is pronounced “kyooba”, then why don’t we say “kyaap of tea”
Different languages perchance
In arabic Kuwait is pronounced Kwait
لماذا يوتيوب تلغي ترجمه في تعليقات !!!!
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you are incredibly racist for that “elephant in the room” message at the end
It slightly irritates me when I hear Brits refer to Saudi Arabia as "Saudi". Do they also call French Guiana "French", or say "I'm going to "British"" when they are heading to eastern Canada? :-)
We Saudi Arabians are fine with it.
@@abdullahshah9397 I am pleasantly surprised. Thanks!
@@khaledhammood5879 Ah! "Saudia" sounds perfectly sensible to me. It is naming the country after the ruling house. The British use is confused because "Saudi" is an adjective, whereas "Saudia" is a noun.
@@khaledhammood5879 Thanks for your interesting and empathetic reply. Glad we could see eye-to-eye.
bro just deleted the entire levant to avoid political discourse
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If you are going to talk about problems, then you could at least mention the destabilisation caused by European interests. The Saudis managed to displace the Hashemites in Mecca due to British support.
and the hashemites managed to destroy the ottoman empire with british support
@@IGCSENERD-up6yvand the ottomans discriminated and massacred the local Arabs with European support
@@EEM_4 and Egyptians got most of the ottman empire with british support (I am playing at this point, not pointing fingers)
It's the exact opposite, the British were on the side of the Hashemites against Saudis
@@AlqoaityTo start off with, yes. But not later, after the Hashemites started wanting independence. The British removed support for the Hashemites, which allowed the Saudis to take Mecca.
The pronounciations make me want to do unspeakable stuff
Iraq???
عن الجزيرة العربية ليس دول عربية
Uruk The oldest city in history
It is not the Persian Gulf, it is the Arabian Gulf in fact, since before Iran occupied the Arab state of Ahwaz in 1947, the Gulf overlooked 100% of Arab lands! 4:19
Ending of video was supper unnecessary. We all act like countries in the west don’t do the same stuff. Stop listening to the news and talk to people who actually live there.
Oman is pronounced "o-muhn", not "oh, man".
not even "o-muhn", there is the ع letter in the beginning which makes it impossible to pronounce it correctly in english. the closest correct pronunciation to it in english would be "oh maan"
The gulf+ Yemen are the best arab countries and culture I love how no matter how we advanced we still love our cultures😢❤
Lawernce of Arabia
Lost every battle
You could have made a good video and not have included the pointless last minute. Might have donated otherwise
Tbh, I do respect your attempt to pronounce the names.
But you butchered the fuck of the names
It's the #arabian_gulf
What a mess of information.
Please don't do this again man
You haven't rebutted anything or provided any source.
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Mission failed
It’s Arabian gulf, nothing called persian gulf
Proud Saudi here