PENGARUH BUDAYA TERHADAP ISTILAH SAINS DAN TEKNOLOGI DALAM BAHASA ARAB*

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the influence of Arabicculture to Arabic in science and technological terms in orderto measure the number of words and terms owned andbsorbed by Arabic language. It is a kind of descriptiveualitative study, which tends to analyze the datainductively. Both distributional method and identitymethod were used for analyzing the data. The result of thisstudy shows that other findings indicate that the Arabiclanguage terms were commonly found in mathematicsscience, astronomy, geography, and medical. Meanwhile,most of the terms in the fields of pharmacy, physics,chemistry and biology are absorbed into Arabic because ofits universality. Moreover, many terms in informationsystem and communication technology are widely absorbedby Arabic language in the way of translation, meaning andconcept borrowing, and loan-word forms.