User:LuckyThracian/Questions by Others

Meaning of "DZ" in Chinese/Taiwanese/Asian products
This may seem like a very weird question... I'm busy looking at various manufacturers of vacuuming machines. Almost all of them are from China, and although all of the machines have different "manufacturers", the model numbers are strikingly similar:(Here are the model numbers from 7 different manufacturers!!!): What's also odd is if you do a google search for "DZ series" you will get a whole lot of part numbers across various different industries that all start with "DZ"
 * 1) DZ600/2S
 * 2) DZD-400/S
 * 3) DZQ-400B
 * 4) DZD-500S VA-500s VAQ-400
 * 5) DZ-300Z DZ-400Z DZ'-500Z
 * 6) HD-DZ-400C
 * 7) DZQ400A

But what could it mean? Does it denote a standard? A Manufacturer?

Other examples are screw driver sets beginning with "DZ"

Here is the "Might USA Inc." brands of "Bridge Machines": DZ-3240 DZ-4240  DZ-5240  DZ-6240  Hitachi has a whole series of camcorders that start with "DZ"

There's a "DZ" series of breaks.

Any idea what this could mean?

I hope you don't mind me also posting this question in the Miscellanious Reference section. I will try remove one posting once I have an answer Rfwoolf (talk) 19:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * In Mandarin, dianzi (電子) means "electronic" (also "electrons" and "electronics"). Cheers.--K.C. Tang (talk) 01:47, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

James, Ya'qub
All James's in the Bible have been read as Ya'qub in Arabic, while Ya'qub is also Jacob in the Bible. How can this transformation be explained, historically or linguistically? --Omidinist (talk) 07:39, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If I understand your question correctly, it is how Hebrew יעקב turned into English James. Our article James (name) gives the following development:
 * Hebrew יעקב (Yaʻaqov) > New Testament Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iakōbos) > Late Latin Iacomus (a dialect variant of Iacobus) > French Gemmes > English James.
 * --Lambiam 07:51, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yep. For whatever reason, the יעקב of the Old Testament is always called "Jacob" in English, while all of the men named Ἰάκωβος in the New Testament are always called "James" in English. But "James" is etymologically derived from Ἰάκωβος, which in turn is derived from יעקב. If anyone cares, I have Bibles in a few dozen languages sitting here on my bookshelf in which I can look to see if any other languages give different names to the OT Jacob and the various NT Jameses. —Angr If you've written a quality article... 18:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Looking at Jacob and Epistle of James (which has surprisingly few wikilinks on it) German and Esperanto use Jakob and Jakobo, respectively, for both. French, OTOH, uses Jacob and Jacques. Indonesian uses Yakub and Yakobus--possibly just a grammatical change? Hungarian uses Jákób and Jakab.--Prosfilaes (talk) 18:21, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The Dutch Wikipedia uses Jakob for the patriarch from the Old Testament, and Jakobus for the apostle from the New Testament. The Indonesian forms may reflect the Arabic and the Dutch forms, as brought, respectively, through the Qur'an and Dutch missionaries. --Lambiam 01:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * James and Jacob are synonomous in English, and at times have been interchangeable: medieval texts will describe a person as "James" or "Jacob" (the later from "Jacobus", the Latin version and used in formal documents). The most famous example are the Jacobites: scottish rebels (or patriots, depending on your political stance}} in favour of James the Old Pretender.  The translation of the name from the OT "Jacob" and the NT "James" is just a strange convention which has continued from the first English translations, but I'm not sure of the reason.  Speculating, I would say the initial translators merely used the commonly known names: the NT Jameses had been canonised by the Church (ie as Saints), and then known in the various countries by the local name, thus in England, you got St James.  OT Patriarchs were not Canonised. (and remained very "Jewish" in concept, thus kept a Hebrew name???).  You get a similar thing with "Jesus" which is actually a version of "Joshua", but there are of course more reasons to draw distinctions between the OT and NT persons. Gwinva (talk) 23:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * (addit) Angr: do you have the Latin Vulgate? That would have Jacobus for James?  That was the text most often used by English speakers, until the English translatiosn were made. Gwinva (talk) 23:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The Vulgate has "Jacob" (undeclined) for the Old Testament Jacob. In the New Testament the apostles named James are called "Jacobus", which is declined normally, and when the Old Testament guy is mentioned, he is simply Jacob there too. Adam Bishop (talk) 04:01, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Gwinva, Adam Bishop's answer is correct. If there's anything else you want to see in the Vulgate, it's available at the Latin Wikisource at Biblia Sacra. —Angr If you've written a quality article... 18:07, 16 January 2008 (UTC)