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| siromar Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6534 days ago 104 posts - 103 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Swedish | Message 33 of 55 13 June 2006 at 2:07am | IP Logged |
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Hmmm. "The man is like deer" or maybe "the leg is like deer".
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| JFA Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6551 days ago 44 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 34 of 55 13 June 2006 at 11:05pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, very close. Like I was saying, unvowelized, most people will initially read it as:
إن الرجلَ كريمٌ in ar-rajula kariimun. "in" as the usually untranslated particle, and "kariim" as an adjective: "The man is generous." But read it like this and you will get the answer I was intending: أنَّ الرجلَ كريمٍ anna ar-rajula ka-riimin "anna" as a verb, "ka" as a preposition, and "riim" as a singular noun: "The man groaned like an (addax) antelope." Here is another riddle: ما هي الأعداد الثلاثة التي يساوي حاصل ضربها ، حاصل جمعها؟ Edited by JFA on 13 June 2006 at 11:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| siromar Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6534 days ago 104 posts - 103 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Swedish | Message 35 of 55 13 June 2006 at 11:32pm | IP Logged |
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I can only think of two; 0 and 2.
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| JFA Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6551 days ago 44 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 36 of 55 14 June 2006 at 12:03am | IP Logged |
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الإجابة:ـ
1,2,3 والاستدلال:ـ 6=3+2+1 1x2x3=6 الفزورة الأولى سمعتها من أستاذي والثانية وجدتها هنا:ـ http://www.egypty.com/100/riddle.asp ٍThe first play-on-words riddle was possible because of the fact that Arabic does not use vowels in writing. Here is another one of the same type that I heard from a friend of mine. جمال جمال جمال The meaning of that one is "The beauty of camels of a cameleer": جَمالُ جِمالِ جَمّالٍ jamaalu jimaali jammaalin Edited by JFA on 14 June 2006 at 5:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| That_Guy Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6887 days ago 74 posts - 87 votes Studies: Hindi, English*, Spanish | Message 37 of 55 18 June 2006 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
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مرحب
ًI think Arabic is a pretty interesting language, but it's always intimidated me. I was just wondering how long it took everyone here to attain the level of fluency they have now? شكرًا إلى اللقاء p.s. I also wanted to check something, a friend of mine was learning Arabic and I asked her to write my name and she provided me with the following: رایان (my name is Ryan by the way) I just wante to make sure that was the best way to write it, thanks. Edited by That_Guy on 18 June 2006 at 8:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| souley Senior Member Joined 7030 days ago 178 posts - 177 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 38 of 55 19 June 2006 at 12:41pm | IP Logged |
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I have studied Arabic for about a year and a half.
And I would write your name like your friend stated. Edited by souley on 19 June 2006 at 12:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| siromar Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6534 days ago 104 posts - 103 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Swedish | Message 39 of 55 19 June 2006 at 1:30pm | IP Logged |
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If an Arabic speaker is to read your name in Arabic the way it's written, he'd say "rayaan". You can substitute the Alef with a Fatha, but then it'd be confusing. It's fine the way it is I guess.
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| JFA Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6551 days ago 44 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 40 of 55 20 June 2006 at 4:55pm | IP Logged |
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marHaban (welcome or hello) should actually be spelled مرحنا .
I would also spell your name like your friend did. With foreign words transliterated into Arabic, the Arabic generally uses the long vowels, soas to reduce ambiquity in the pronunciation. For example, New York is spelled نيو يورك and California كاليفرنيا . Bear in mind that this is just a guideline, and not a rule; there are exceptions, namely among those foreign words that have more or less standardized spellings in Arabic. As for my learning Arabic, I have been learning the Egyptian dialect for about five years now. I learned some modern standard Arabic throughout the first three years of that period, but have been systemically learning it for two years now. While I have a firm foundation in MSA, I do not consider myslef fluent. Edited by JFA on 20 June 2006 at 5:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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