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According to joomla.org, the word joomla or jumla (watever its name sound or spell), means 'whole' or 'all together', or in other words TOTAL. This is very beautiful as is also means the joomla is made up from the total commitment or whole efforts from all who care about the future of this software which driven by open source spirit.
in Malaysian the Joomla term is similar with "Jumlah" (pronounced same as Joomla) also means Total.Whole or Sum. I'm not sure if this is on purpose or not but the trm Joomla seem suit quite number of language in the globe.I think it also means the same in Indonesian language. in Arabic Joomla mean as I recall "WORD" or "SENTENCE" in english Its gibberish. inIndonesia Joomla = A whole, total In Arabic, it has two strict meanings:Sum or total ,a whole sentence in Hindi 'Jhoom lo' means 'come dance together' In Estonian "Joomla" has the meaning of a drinking place (where they drink alcoholic drinks ofcourse), actually a place where drunkers drink all the time In Finnish the closest can get:Jumala = God ,Joo = yes,Juomala = drinking place, a bottom category bar |
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