Vocabulary

mujahideen; mujahedin; mujahidin; mujaheddin; (fundamentalist) Islamic guerrilla fighters

shahid; shaheed; Muslim martyr

fatwa; legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue

sharia; shariah; shariat; Islamic law

mufti; Muslim legal expert entitled to make decisions on points of Islamic law

Hadith; tradition related to the words and deeds of Muhammad

Sunna (collection of recorded words and actions of the prophet Muhammad); Sunnah

Urdu (language)

Sunni Triangle (area of Iraq bounded by Baghdad, Ramadi and Tikrit)

Sunni (Islam)

Mercosur (South American trade bloc); Mercosul; Southern Common Market

Hittite

Hittite (language)

hydrate

mono-hydrate

solvate

big quarrel; huge fight; big row

open fire (in cooking); open flame; direct heat

once more; again

once more; again

pangs of conscience

avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries

lower portion; base surface; soffit

to rip (someone) off; to overcharge; to ask a high price

Ksitigarbha (Jizō) who listens to people's complaints (statue at the Nagoya Keihō Temple)

truancy; school non-attendance

sudachi (species of Japanese citrus, Citrus sudachi)

truth is stranger than fiction

truth is stranger than fiction

worn-out; run-down; beat-up; shabby; dilapidated

slow speed

to swipe; to nick; to pilfer

kabosu (type of citrus fruit) (Citrus sphaerocarpa)

iyokan (Citrus iyo)

satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu)

Kiyomi orange (Citrus unshiu sinensis); type of tangor (tangerine-orange hybrid)

cultivar of pomelo (Citrus maxima, Citrus grandis)

dekopon mandarin; sumo mandarin; sumo citrus

tea leaf; tea leaves

Eastern Catholic Churches; Uniate Churches; Eastern-rite Catholic Churches