Talk:Friday Mosque
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[edit]A user editted the article to add: al-jum3a al-masjid and although using '3' which supposedly looks similar to ayn? I forget which it's supposed to. Either way this is not a suitable system for pronounciation I don't believe. It would be far better for someone to get the Arabic or do an IPA tranliteration. gren 22:39, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The article originally had a Persian-borrowed Urdu version of the Arabic phrase for "Friday Mosque" - and incorrect, to boot - listed as the Arabic. I changed it to a phonetic form in actual Arabic. I don't have a way to write Arabic script on my computer, though I agree it would be better to have it than a transliteration. In any case, the form written is commonly used by Arabic readers who are writing in Roman letters: just search for "jum3a" on the web and you'll see it's common. I didn't know how else to write this word because the 3ayn is unavaible in the extended character set. I did figure it was better than a misspelled version of the Urdu version of the Persian phrase corresponding to the Arabic term. em zilch, 0017h on 20050305