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1) Subject:Arabic idiom query
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Date: 03 Mar 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Franklin Lewis <<a href="mailto:flewis@uchicago.edu">flewis@uchicago.edu</a>></span>
Subject:Arabic idiom query
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">This was also a common idiom in the Persian of Iran, a circumlocution designed to lessen <br>the shock or morbidity of someone's passing, by representing it as a lengthening of<br>the life of the person to whom the news is being reported (second person formal is<br>more typical, I think). As such, there is probably no reason to use anything but a<br>second-person pronoun there.<br> Folaani (mord o) `omr-ash raa be shomaa daad<br> So-and-so (died and) gave his years of life to you.<br>Best, Franklin Lewis, University of Chicago<br><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"></pre></span>
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