Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6054 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical)
| Message 105 of 152 27 August 2014 at 2:22am | IP Logged |
Zireael wrote:
What does nasara نصارى mean? I've came across it on a friend's FB feed but he doesn't know any Arabic (it was a reference to the Christians in the Middle East).
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Plural of نصراني , "Nazarene", a.k.a. "Christian".
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4644 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 106 of 152 01 October 2014 at 5:29pm | IP Logged |
Still getting my daily dose of Arabic via FB posts (Niaz is posting pretty much 1 Arabic picture a day).
In other news, I'm not doing much. Especially that I found a German novel in a library so I'm slowly making my way through to refresh my German.
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4644 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 107 of 152 10 October 2014 at 12:46pm | IP Logged |
Malala Yousafzai ملاله یوسفزۍ receives the Nobel Peace Prize today, becoming the youngest Nobel laureate ever at age 17.
I guess it's time to find out how's Nobel Peace Prize in Arabic - even if the Pakistani sources won't cover it, other Arabic-language websites certainly will!
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4644 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 108 of 152 11 October 2014 at 9:12am | IP Logged |
A friendly soul at Alternate History forums solved my problem - time to go look for Arabic sources on Malala, since I believe she's the first female Islamic Nobel Prize winner.
Acapela, as usual, is the key to getting the pronunciation (I always pick one of the male voices since I find them easier to understand with my hearing impairment)
New phrases
Gubizat Nobil al-salaam جائزة نوبل للسلام Nobel Peace Prize
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4644 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 109 of 152 24 October 2014 at 11:10am | IP Logged |
One of my Yemeni friends just liked a Yemeni Wildlife Foundation. Said foundation has a nice big bilingual logo on the FB page - and another website with a nice big bilingual logo which is slightly different.
Cue comparisons and using Acapela...
New words
Al-muasisa المؤسسة foundation
Himaya(t) حماية protection
البرية wild
الحياة البريّة wildlife
Edited by Zireael on 26 October 2014 at 2:41pm
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4644 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 110 of 152 26 October 2014 at 2:45pm | IP Logged |
My Tunisian friend just posted on FB.
نحبك يا تونس
Aratools gives multiple possibilities for the first word, including:
your weeping (noun)
nahabki we love you (what I assumed first)
we crawl/give you (???)
he weeps for you (?) - I think I can exclude this one, since Tunis is feminine
New words
Saha صحة truth
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4644 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 111 of 152 03 November 2014 at 6:43pm | IP Logged |
I've just watched a documentary on Dubai (the city).
New words
Burdʒ برج tower
Al Muntaha المنتهى highest, ultimate
Al Mahara المهارة oyster
Rayhaan ريحان basil
Nakheel نخيل palms
Edited by Zireael on 03 November 2014 at 7:21pm
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4644 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 112 of 152 09 November 2014 at 2:56pm | IP Logged |
Two things this time.
I've noticed my post counter reads 444 (well, 445 now).
So to celebrate, time to learn how to write and say it in Arabic!
اربعمئة و اربعة و اربعون
Arba'u mi'a wa arbatun wa arba'un
Binta's Polish friend posted a photo of herself, Binta and some other Polish friends in Arabic garb. The photo is captioned عائلة - "family" (yes, in Arabic). Dunno what it's about, but Binta looks really epic (she is the only one to have the "correct" skintone, being half-Senegalese :D)
New words
Mi'a(t) مئة hundred
Mi'ataan مئتأن two hundred
Arba'u mi'a اربعمئة Four hundred
A'ila (?) عائلة family (synonymous to al-asrat الأسرة )
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