Basic Greetings & Words in different dialects - Page 3

Zeloguy · 10-18-2005, 09:05 AM

Basic phrases in MANY different languages.

What I find interesting is that when I look at Arabic and what they interpret the phrases to be, some of them are "North African" while some are "Moroccan".

Anyway hope the web site helps
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/

Nani · 10-18-2005, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by abu_dana

Just a suggestion - what if we create different threads (sahafa?) for different dialect?
Like Syrian, Morrocan, Mesopotamian, Haleeji and etc?
How many dialects are there scientifically proven and existing anyone has that information?

do u mean you want to creat a new ( safha ?? ) because sahafa means media .. unless u want to read some articles in arabic

am not sure how many dialects there are .. well , there are 22 Arabic country , each country has several dialects ..

BUT with this non-stop immigrations of Arabs , i guess the dialects are reduced .. LOL

abu_dana · 10-19-2005, 01:17 PM

Nani,
What is the word for "theme" in Arabic? "Theme" or "thread", and "subject of discussion". Like this one is called "Basic greetings & Words in different dialects".
Definitely the number of dialects will be reduced in Arabic, I agree with you on that.

abu_dana · 10-19-2005, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by xpsal

I know the origins of three words, but not the other two, I don't know where they came from,
kan3eesh كنعيش = from the verb 3aasha ya3eesh عاش يعيش but instead of saying a3eesh in moroccan we add kan to form the first person in singular.
bgheet بغيت = (to like )يبغي بغى if you want to conjugate it in arabic fus7a to the past, you would say "ana bagheet" in moroccan we simply delete the "a" since we say most of words with soukoun.
concerning the word (kanehder = I speak) the word yahder يهدر is in arabic fus7a but means shed blood or to waste something uselessly. I don't know why it means something different in arabic, same thing with the word kydaira the word daar دارَ means to go around so maybe the origin is from "how things are going around?"
the last one is labass, baasa باس means kissing and la لا means "no" so when you meet someone you tell them literally "no kissing" meaning "don't kiss when you greet me"

I'm just kidding, the word labass means no hard in arabic fus7a, or no suffering, the word بأس means suffering fear horror... so when you say no suffering? no fear? is means you're asking them if they're ok and if they're not suffering...

Thank you, Salim. I see the Morrocans love to use verb Kan, which is irregular verb but it is used very often. It's like English "to be"?
Interesting comment on "labass", thank you.

xpsal · 10-19-2005, 09:08 PM

kan means I (before the verb) I write I speak kanekteb, kanehder ... so it's not quite a verb but a pronoun (subject),
theme or thread= mawdou3 = موضوع which also means subject discussion...

abu_dana · 10-20-2005, 03:26 PM

Really? You use Kan as I in stead of Ana?
That's very interesting

And speaking of Sahifa, people in Uzbekistan and to my mind Azeri Turks too use it as meaning Forum, it's not even thread, sorry I was mistaken too. But then we thought we borrowed this word from Persians and they borrowed it from Arabic.

xpsal · 10-20-2005, 07:31 PM

صحيفة means daily journal , paper , tabloid , newspaper and also sheet of paper , piece of paper , page , leaf. So after all it's not very far from something we write on and read

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Zeloguy Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 54 Zeloguy is an unknown character at this point	Basic phrases in MANY different languages. What I find interesting is that when I look at Arabic and what they interpret the phrases to be, some of them are "North African" while some are "Moroccan". Anyway hope the web site helps http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/ __________________ Zelo http://www.bestmorocco.com http://www.zelo.com http://www.name-stats.com
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abu_dana International Forum Fan Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Qazaqstan Posts: 290 abu_dana is an unknown character at this point	Nani, What is the word for "theme" in Arabic? "Theme" or "thread", and "subject of discussion". Like this one is called "Basic greetings & Words in different dialects". Definitely the number of dialects will be reduced in Arabic, I agree with you on that.
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xpsal The Linguanaut Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Washington DC Posts: 1,783 xpsal has a spectacular aura about	kan means I (before the verb) I write I speak kanekteb, kanehder ... so it's not quite a verb but a pronoun (subject), theme or thread= mawdou3 = موضوع which also means subject discussion... __________________ - Learn Arabic, Arabic Calligraphy, Spanish, Arabic Keyboard - Phrases in more than 52 languages - Try some Brain Games. Salim ۞ ۩ ۝ ۩۩۩
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abu_dana International Forum Fan Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Qazaqstan Posts: 290 abu_dana is an unknown character at this point	Really? You use Kan as I in stead of Ana? That's very interesting And speaking of Sahifa, people in Uzbekistan and to my mind Azeri Turks too use it as meaning Forum, it's not even thread, sorry I was mistaken too. But then we thought we borrowed this word from Persians and they borrowed it from Arabic.
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10-20-2005, 07:31 PM	#21 (permalink)
xpsal The Linguanaut Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Washington DC Posts: 1,783 xpsal has a spectacular aura about	صحيفة means daily journal , paper , tabloid , newspaper and also sheet of paper , piece of paper , page , leaf. So after all it's not very far from something we write on and read __________________ - Learn Arabic, Arabic Calligraphy, Spanish, Arabic Keyboard - Phrases in more than 52 languages - Try some Brain Games. Salim ۞ ۩ ۝ ۩۩۩
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