Hizbullah or Hezbolla?

Osama or Usama, frankly I can't keep up. I am not kidding, I have seen Hezbollah spelled 4 different ways in the media in one day and Bin Laden's name spelled at least 3 different ways since he stuffed his coward arse in a cave sometime after 9/11. So what is up with these silly Arab names and there different spellings? We at Uncle Tim's are determined to find out for you.

Well first off here is the Wikipedia definition that shows all of the spellings. But it does nothing to explain what or why. They are not Homophones for example like where Hizbullah would mean Pond Scum and Hezbollah might mean Diarea Eater. So far all I can tell is that their origins are Arabic for "Party Of God" which in itself is ironic as these people generally have no God...except maybe death.

Ah Ha! Eureka, I've found it! After much toiling and walking through the desert many miles, your faithful servant has found the answer you all seek. According to al-bab.com it is a problem in translating the Arabic words to Roman text . So the answer according to scholar TE Lawrence is they are all right and correct spellings,

"Arabic names," he replied, "won't go into English, exactly, for their consonants are not the same as ours, and their vowels, like ours, vary from district to district."

Well, another problem solved here at the Bargain Basement... However you spell Hezbollah, Hizbullah, Hizbollah or Hezb'Allah though and whether in Greek : Τρομοκράτης, Japanese: テロリスト Russian: Террорист, or Chinese: 恐怖分子 it still means only one thing... Terrorist

Cheers!
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