http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/07/word-of-the-day-lent/ A First Things Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 03:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/07/word-of-the-day-lent/comment-page-1/#comment-86042 aonghus Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:03:40 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=54127#comment-86042 Nota Bene: The word Lenz for Spring lives on in German although Fruehling is more common.

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/07/word-of-the-day-lent/comment-page-1/#comment-85973 peg Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:17:47 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=54127#comment-85973 The Maltese word for Lent is “randan”—from the Arabic “Ramadan” of all things! The Maltese language is a form of Arabic, a vestige of the medieval Arab conquest, so there are several of these linguistic borrowings from Arabic and Islam. I remember a few churches dedicated to the Blessed Mother that had the title “Sultana”, for example. also, the Maltese for “God” is “Allah”.

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