Arabic Tattoos

One of the most popular keywords bringing visitors from search engines to this site is "Arabic Tattoo." It seems hundreds of individuals perform a search for ''Arabic Tattoo'' or similar keywords every month. We also get emails from persons seeking advice on Arabic tattoos, often asking for confirmation of spelling or translation of Arabic words, phrases or proverbs.

The interest in tattoos in general and Arabic tattoos in particular is not surprising. People, it seems, do not like tattoos that everyone can read or understand. They go after engimatic codes and puzzling scripts. No doubt that Arabic, as well as Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Hebrew, not to mention dead languages, pose a decryption challenge to most people. One aspect which makes Arabic more difficult to decipher is the fact that Arabic letters are joined together to build words. In other words, and assuming that 'Tattoo' is an Arabic word, the typing of letters, t,a,t,t,o,o without spaces or commas will not give you the word 'Tattoo' in Arabic. Certain changes to letters are required when they are part of a word.

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