I'm trying to create a table using PHP. What I need is a table with two columns.

So I have an SQL table with 4 fields - primary key id, language, word and definition. The language for each is either Arabic or Russian.

I want a table that does the following:

|     defintion      |
|____________________|
|                    |
| rus1   |  arab1    |
| rus2   |  arab2    |
| rus3   |  arab3    |
| rus4   |           |

So it divides the list by English word, creates a for each English word, then lists Russian equivalents in the left column and Arabic in the right. However there are often not the same number for both. What I am doing right now is running a WHILE loop in a WHILE loop. The outer loop is running fine but I think I am doing the inner loop wrong. Here is the bulk of the code:

$definitions=mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT definition FROM words")

WHILE($row=mysql_fetch_array($definitions)
{
  ECHO '<tr><th colspan="2">' . $row['definition'] . '</th></tr>';
  $russian="SELECT * FROM words WHERE language='Russian' AND definition='".$row['definition']."'";
  $arabic="SELECT * FROM words WHERE language='Arabic' AND definition='".$row['definition']."'";
  WHILE($rus=mysql_fetch_array($russian) or $arb=mysql_fetch_array($arabic))
  {
    ECHO '<tr><td>'.$rus['word'].'</td><td>'.$arb['word'].'</td></tr>';
  }
}

Sadly I am getting soemthing like this:

|     defintion      |
|____________________|
|                    |
| rus1   |           |
| rus2   |           |
| rus3   |           |
| rus4   |           |
|        |  arab1    |
|        |  arab2    |
|        |  arab3    |

Not sure what other way I can do this? I tried changing the or to || thinking the different precedence would cause another outcome, but then I get ONLY the Russian column.

I'm out of ideas, you guys are my only hope!