Arabic-L:GEN:ghoul

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1) Subject: ghoul
2) Subject: ghoul

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Date: 31 Jan 2001
From: djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: ghoul

A curiosity:
My wife was born in Kfar Saba, the daughter of Baghdad Jews.
Her native language, and the language which she still speaks with
her family, is Arabic, though she's not literate in it.  She frequently
uses the word ghuula, mostly as a metaphor for some child's
beastly behavior, but she refuses to believe that the word even has
a masculine.
A sad day for equality of the sexes.
Thanks.
David.

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Date: 31 Jan 2001
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: ghoul

My wife, who is not from Tanta, but was born and bred in Cairo, and whose
andecedents are in the Governorate of Qalioubiya, just north of Cairo, the
villages of Toukh and Tahanoub, says that it is not /amiina/ but /umm-i-na
el-ghuula/.  She has never heard of /abb-uu-na el-ghuul/.

Dr. David Wilmsen
Director, Arabic and Translation Studies
The American University in Cairo

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