Re: CHAT: The Arabic equivalent of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"?

Danny Wier wrote at 2004-05-09 10:56:20 (-0500)
 >
 > The famous phrase in the Subject: line above uses every letter in
 > the English alphabet, and there are other well-known sentences in
 > other languages. I found a German version online somewhere; that at
 > least I can remember? So is there any short Arabic sentence that
 > uses all 28 letters (29 if one counts hamzah)? I'd also like to see
 > Greek, Russian and Hebrew sentences of that sort.
 >

The general term for sentences of this kind is "pangram";  the
Wikipedia entry includes Hebrew and Russian examples, among others,
though not Arabic or Greek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram