Word origins

• TatreezTraditional Palestinian embroidery.
• tawriyaA double entendre in the Arabic language.
• tayammumThe wiping of one's face and hands against dust, sand or a clean physical object in place of wudhu for the bereft or bedridden.
• tazirPunishment for offenses at the discretion of the judge or ruler of the state; one of three major types of punishments or sanctions under sharia law.
• TebbouneA surname from Arabic
• tharidA traditional Arab dish of pieces of bread in a vegetable or meat broth, consumed especially during Ramadan, said to have been the favourite food of the prophet Muhammad.
• thawabdivine reward (for good deeds)
• thuluthA style of Arabic calligraphy.
• tilawathe ritual recitation of the Qur'an
• TimgadAn ancient Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria.
• touizaA form of voluntary collective labor in North Africa.
• turbahA small piece of soil or clay, often in the form of a tablet, used in Islamic prayer to symbolize earth.
• UmariA member of the al-Omari, a family claiming descent from Umar, the second caliph of the Islamic empire.
• Umm al-QuwainAn emirate of the United Arab Emirates.
• UwaisA male given name.
• Wad MadaniThe capital of the Al Jazirah state in east-central Sudan.
• wajibA religious duty; something that Muslims are obliged to do.
• walimaThe marriage banquet held as part of an Islamic wedding.
• waslaA diacritic added to the Arabic letter alif ا to form ٱ, also called "hamzatu l-waṣli" - هَمْزَةُ الْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli) or "alifu l-waṣli" - أَلِفُ الْوَصْلِ (ʔalifu l-waṣli). It denotes elision and is seldom used in practice in fully vocalised Arabic texts, only to highlight that the alif is silent هَمْزَةُ ٱلْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli) = هَمْزَةُ الْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli).
• waswasaWhisperings of the devil; temptation away from the correct religious path.
• worrala monitor lizard of Egypt, either a Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) or a desert monitor (Varanus griseus).
• Ya-SinThe 36th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
• Yathribthe original name of Medina before the advent of Islam
• YazidiA member of an endogamous, largely Kurmanji-speaking ethnoreligious group which practices Yazidism and is natively concentrated mostly in Syria, Iraq, and the Caucasus.
• YoukhanaA surname from Arabic.
• YounusA surname from Arabic.
• zaaloukA Moroccan eggplant salad.
• zaatarA particular herb, similar in flavor to thyme or oregano, used in Middle Eastern cuisine (Origanum syriacum).
• ZabaniyahA group of angels in Islam who are tasked to torture the sinners in hell.
• zabibaprayer bump
• zachunAn oil extracted by from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites aegyptiaca), which has healing properties.
• ZahiriA Muslim who adheres to this madhab
• ZahranA male given name from Arabic, meaning “bright or pure”.
• zaimA Turkish irregular mounted militia.
• ZaniahEta Virginis, a triple star system in the constellation of Virgo.
• ZanjOne of the Bantu-speaking inhabitants of this part of East Africa.
• ZaqqumA tree that grows in Jahannam (Hell), whose dwellers are compelled to eat the bitter fruit.
• ZariyaA female given name.
• ZavijavaBeta Virginis, a star in the equatorial constellation of Virgo.
• zerdaThe fennec (Vulpes zerda).
• zeribaA fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
• ZghartaA city in Lebanon
• ziaraA visit to a holy place; a pilgrimage.
• ziczacThe crocodile bird.
• ziharA form of divorce among pre-Islamic Arabs, condemned in the Quran, in which a man says to his wife "you are like my mother".
• ziraleetA joyful chant uttered by a group of women in Muslim countries.
• zizA giant bird resembling a griffin in Jewish mythology.
• ZuhayrA male given name from Arabic.
• ZurayqA surname from Arabic.
• zurbiyanA Yemeni rice dish with meat (usually chicken or lamb), vegetable sauce, and spices.
• ZureiqA surname from Arabic.
• ZuttSynonym of Jat.