Sunday, April 24, 2005
Ah San Wong
Ah San Wong
1) " Ah" -- in the term Ah San Wong
This article forms part of the series Islam Vocabulary ofIslam Five Pillars Profession of faith Prayer · Alms · Fasting Pilgrimage to Mecca Jihad (See Sixth pillar of Islam ) People Muhammad Prophets of Islam Caliph · ShiaImam Companions of Muhammad Holy Cities Mecca · Medina · Jerusalem Najaf · Karbala · Kufa Kazimain · Mashhad · Samarra Events Hijra · Islamic calendar · Eid ul-Fitr Eid ul-Adha · Aashura · Arba'in Buildings Mosque · Minaret · Mihrab · Kaaba Islamic architecture Functional Religious Roles Muezzin · Imam · Mullah Ayatollah · Mufti Interpretive Texts & Practices Qur'an · Hadith · Sunnah Fiqh · Fatwa · Sharia Sects Sunni : Hanafi · Hanbali · Maliki · Shafi'i Shi'a : Ithna Asharia · Ismailiyah · Zaiddiyah Others: Ibadi · Kharijite · Murjite · Mu'tazili Movements Sufism · Wahhabism · Salafism Non-Mainstream Sects / Movements A madiyyah · Nation of Islam Zikri · Druze Related Faiths Alawi · Babism · Bahá'í Faith · Yazidi
The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar is the calendar used todate events in predominately Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere todetermine the proper day on which to celebrate Muslim holy days. It is a purely lunar calendar having 12 lunar months in a year of about 354 days. Because this lunar year is about 11 daysshorter than the solar year, Muslim holy days, although celebrated on fixed dates in their own calendar, usually occur 11 daysearlier each successive solar year, such as a year of the Gregoriancalendar. Islamic years are also called Hijra years because the first year was the year during which the Hijra occurred— Muhammad 'semigration from Mecca to Medina. Thus eachnumbered year is ...
2) " San" -- in the term Ah San Wong
# San (or santo) is the Spanish word for saint, as in aSn Francisco ( Saint Francis ) and Son Diego. Ssn is used as a title only, whereas Son to is the regular usage (as in «él es unsanto» or "he is a saint" ) or a title (as in Sam toDomingo ).
# Sab is another name for the Bushmen, an ethnic group living in South Africa and Botswana.
# In computing, a SAN is a storage area network.
# San is the fictional girl raised by a wolf goddess in Miyazaki Hayao 's animated movie Princess Mononoke - the movie's title is a name by which she is also known.
# Saj is also a river inSouthern Poland.
# San has various meanings in Japanese, some ofwhich appear in English:
# Following a personal name, it is a title, akin to Mr., Ms, Miss, and Mrs. For example, Tanaka-san. The title is not gender specific and can follow just the surname, given name, or the entire full name.Other titles include -chan and -kun, which have different levels of formality.
# Following the name of a mountain, it means Mount. For example, Fuji-san.
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3) " Wong" -- in the term Ah San Wong
Surname
Wong is the transliteration of 黃 ( Huang ) (literally meaning " yellow ") and 王,汪 ( Wang ) (literally," King ") in CantoneseChinese. It is amongst the top five most common Chinese surnames, and dates back to ancient times.
Common land
A wong is also a fairly rare term for a piece of common land in England. The term dates back to William the Conqueror and the Domesday Survey.There is an example of a wong in Horncastle in Lincolnshire.
This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it ( http: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wong&action=edit ). ... ¶ 3:35 AM
1) " Ah" -- in the term Ah San Wong
This article forms part of the series Islam Vocabulary ofIslam Five Pillars Profession of faith Prayer · Alms · Fasting Pilgrimage to Mecca Jihad (See Sixth pillar of Islam ) People Muhammad Prophets of Islam Caliph · ShiaImam Companions of Muhammad Holy Cities Mecca · Medina · Jerusalem Najaf · Karbala · Kufa Kazimain · Mashhad · Samarra Events Hijra · Islamic calendar · Eid ul-Fitr Eid ul-Adha · Aashura · Arba'in Buildings Mosque · Minaret · Mihrab · Kaaba Islamic architecture Functional Religious Roles Muezzin · Imam · Mullah Ayatollah · Mufti Interpretive Texts & Practices Qur'an · Hadith · Sunnah Fiqh · Fatwa · Sharia Sects Sunni : Hanafi · Hanbali · Maliki · Shafi'i Shi'a : Ithna Asharia · Ismailiyah · Zaiddiyah Others: Ibadi · Kharijite · Murjite · Mu'tazili Movements Sufism · Wahhabism · Salafism Non-Mainstream Sects / Movements A madiyyah · Nation of Islam Zikri · Druze Related Faiths Alawi · Babism · Bahá'í Faith · Yazidi
The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar is the calendar used todate events in predominately Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere todetermine the proper day on which to celebrate Muslim holy days. It is a purely lunar calendar having 12 lunar months in a year of about 354 days. Because this lunar year is about 11 daysshorter than the solar year, Muslim holy days, although celebrated on fixed dates in their own calendar, usually occur 11 daysearlier each successive solar year, such as a year of the Gregoriancalendar. Islamic years are also called Hijra years because the first year was the year during which the Hijra occurred— Muhammad 'semigration from Mecca to Medina. Thus eachnumbered year is ...
2) " San" -- in the term Ah San Wong
# San (or santo) is the Spanish word for saint, as in aSn Francisco ( Saint Francis ) and Son Diego. Ssn is used as a title only, whereas Son to is the regular usage (as in «él es unsanto» or "he is a saint" ) or a title (as in Sam toDomingo ).
# Sab is another name for the Bushmen, an ethnic group living in South Africa and Botswana.
# In computing, a SAN is a storage area network.
# San is the fictional girl raised by a wolf goddess in Miyazaki Hayao 's animated movie Princess Mononoke - the movie's title is a name by which she is also known.
# Saj is also a river inSouthern Poland.
# San has various meanings in Japanese, some ofwhich appear in English:
# Following a personal name, it is a title, akin to Mr., Ms, Miss, and Mrs. For example, Tanaka-san. The title is not gender specific and can follow just the surname, given name, or the entire full name.Other titles include -chan and -kun, which have different levels of formality.
# Following the name of a mountain, it means Mount. For example, Fuji-san.
...
3) " Wong" -- in the term Ah San Wong
Surname
Wong is the transliteration of 黃 ( Huang ) (literally meaning " yellow ") and 王,汪 ( Wang ) (literally," King ") in CantoneseChinese. It is amongst the top five most common Chinese surnames, and dates back to ancient times.
Common land
A wong is also a fairly rare term for a piece of common land in England. The term dates back to William the Conqueror and the Domesday Survey.There is an example of a wong in Horncastle in Lincolnshire.
This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it ( http: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wong&action=edit ). ... ¶ 3:35 AM
