OH im Islamologie-Seminar:
lā ilāha illā ʾLLĀH, muḥammadun rasūlu ʾLLĀH, ist das A und O!
… Ich fand’s lustig. 😀
Tag: Arabic
A Feast For Language Geeks
My brother just gave me a great present for ‘Eid: he sent me a link to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s (DLIFLC) Language Survival Kits. It’s unsurprisingly a little heavy on the vocabulary necessary/useful for foreign occupants (yay, USA!) … but it’s still a lot of fun. 😀
They provide the same set of sentences in several dozen languages with translations, transliterations and native writing. To top it off they have audio samples for unfamiliar sounds in each language and with a native speaker saying the sentences out loud and then saying them slow in order for you to repeat them … awesome! 😀
Interesting omissions from the list are German and South Korean, while the list even contains separate entries for several regional dialects of Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Pashto, etc. … o.O
The Meaning of Valar Morghulis in Ramadhan
Now that Ramadhan is almost over it became obvious to me that “Valar Morghulis” must also mean “والله 먹어 less” 😛
Sometimes I’m scared to see how my brain combines things. o.O
kulu wa-shrabu wu-srifu
Come Ramadan people seem to think it says “كلوا و اشربوا و اسرفوا”. A slight error it seems, but a grave one actually. *sigh*
Er hot a gojischen Kopp
Er hot a gojischen Kopp
steht ungefähr für „Er ist dumm“.
Goi bezeichnete ursprünglich einfach Nichtjuden, kann aber wie oben, anscheinend auch pejorativ “als Hinweis auf ‘unjüdisches’,[…] lasterhaftes oder unintelligentes Verhalten” verwendet werden. 😛 So gesehen, scheint es das “jüdischen Equivalent” von Kafir zu sein; mit der Ausnahme, dass Kafir keine Konnotation bzgl. der Intelligenz einer Person hat. 🙂
فطل
فطل
as seen in Qur’an 2:265 means مَطَر خَفِيف
You’ll probably never see/hear it in any other context 😉
Basic Needs
This is a visual manifestation of basic needs … i.e. when you are in a lecture and can’t concentrate because of hunger … 😉
- I’m hungry …