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Depending on the harakat (حركات).

Heart: قلّب Inversion: قَلَبَ.

Different words, same root. One is a noun, and the other a verb in its basic conjugation will have the same set of letters.

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And therein lies a possible problem with using Arabic as a programming language: it is normally written without explicit voweling, which can lead to ambiguity of meaning. That might not be desirable in a programming language.

Which happens all the time already with english programming languages. "or" does not mean the same thing in most programming languages that it does in English.

Arabic is a very rich and complicated language, yes :) It is one of the toughest languages to learn.

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