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The code name of Joomla 1.5 Rc3 Takriban is an arabic word and it means...almost 

In fact it comes from the Swahili, but we know that Kiswahili uses quite a few expression from the Arabic language.
Before the European colonisation of Eastern Africa and the subsequent use of Latin alphabet, Kiswhahili was written in Arabic script as Zanzibar was a colony of the Sultanate of Oman.