Re: More Nyenya'a

 >sura    NopobirE
 >chapter first
 >
 >kitoba-no       erupakakoto
 >book-GEN        opening
 >
 >alaxu-no  atEra-na  alaxu-wa   sawa   alaxu-wa   EriSElE?
 >Allah-GEN name-LOC  Allah-TOP  good   Allah-TOP  merciful

        Oh.  There has got to be some way you can work in something
other than "good" for "beneficent."  In the Arabic, especially, there
is such a clear relationship between these two attributes:

    ar-raHmaani r-raHiimi

Both are from r-H-m.  Now, I've never figured out how to work this out
in English to my satisfaction, so perhaps I shouldn't complain. :)

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William Annis  -  System Administrator -  Biomedical Computing Group
"When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do
towards other humans."                       Marcus Aurelius  VII.65

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