Arabic-L:TRANS:Al-Ajnaf

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Date: 15 Feb 2001
From: alhawar at american.edu
Subject: Al-Ajnaf

AL-AJNAF means "the hunch-backed" (listed in most Arabic-Arabic dictionaries).

Mohammad T. Alhawary

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Date: 15 Feb 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Al-Ajnaf

  'ajnaf  is "Old Arabic"  =having a deformity that makes

one walk leaning over to one side."  Compare dialect of Mara:zig

'azhnaf =  "left-handed."  (From W. Fischer, *Farb- und Formbezeichenungen

in der Sprache...* Wiesbaden  1965,  page 14, middle).

                                            Mike Schub

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