Arabic vs cipher

Arabic

noun
  • A variety of the Arabic language. 

  • An Arab 

adj
  • Related to the Arabic language. 

  • Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective). 

name
  • A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa. 

  • The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others. 

cipher

noun
  • Any text character. 

  • A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name. 

  • A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed. 

  • The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking. 

  • Someone or something of no importance. 

  • A numeric character. 

  • A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning. 

  • A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext. 

  • A hip-hop jam session. 

  • Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher. 

  • A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods 

verb
  • Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ. 

  • To write in code or cipher. 

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