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Tribal elders suggested Wo'aabi, an Indigenous word meaning "worm."
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
It said it often used the term "Riba", an Arabic word meaning "excess" and commonly used to describe the prohibition of interest under Islamic law.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
As I wrote in my 2023 book, “The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir,” the very name “Wales” is a Saxon word meaning “Home of the Foreigners.”
From Salon • May 27, 2024
He taught me a Tahitian word, fiu, a kind of hand-flip word meaning “enough,” or “fed up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
In all the major European languages the same metaphorical use of a word meaning ‘uncover’ was soon adopted to describe the voyages of discovery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
