Arabic-L:LING:bosta info

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Date:  08 Oct 2001
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: bosta info


A year ago we had this topic discussed on the list. However, just
have a look at what I found out the other day in A Dictionary of
Vernacular Terms and Expressions (qaamuus al-muSTalaHaat wa
at-ta3aabiir al-sha3biyya -- mu3jam lahji ta'Siili folklori) by Ahmad
Abu Sa'd, Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1987, p.365:

buusTa: (min al-'iiTaaliyya Posta, naxla L159): ma3naahaa fi al-'aSl
markaba 'aw miHaffa xayl li-naql al-musaafiriin wa al-bariid, wa
tuTlaq 3indanaa 3ala sayyaara naql al-rukkaab al-kabiira. j: buusTaat.

and a few lines before that:

'uutuubiis: (min al-faransiyya Autobus): sayyaara kabiira tanqul
al-rukkaab. wa lafZa 'uutuubiis shaa'i3a fi al-madiina 'ammaa fi
al-qura fa-yaquuluun "buusTa".

The author is a Lebaneese and the dictionary is more than a piece of cake.

Regards,
Srpko Lestaric

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