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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Waheed Samy <<a href="mailto:wasamy@umich.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">wasamy@umich.edu</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'
<br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">بَديهيّ (adjective)
بَداهَة (noun, or adverbial if marked for accusative)
وحيد سامي
جامعة ميشيجان</span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Al Haraka <<a href="mailto:alharaka@gmail.com">alharaka@gmail.com</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'</span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Albrecht,<br><br>من البديهي (min al-badeehee if you do not have UTF-8 or there are<br>rendering problems) is what I was taught years ago. It literally<br>means "from the forehead."<br><br>Best,<br>_AJS<br></span>
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Mustafa Mughazy <<a href="mailto:mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'</span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Dear Albrecht,
For MSA I would suggests
البداهة
أمور بديهية
بالبديهية
The antonym however would be
أمر لا يعقل
For Egyptian Colloquial, it is
مفهومية
بالعقل
I hoe this makes sense,
Mustafa Mughazy
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Benjamin Geer <<a href="mailto:benjamin.geer@gmail.com">benjamin.geer@gmail.com</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'</span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">In the Arabic translation of Terry Eagleton's book <i>Literary Theory: An Introduction</i>, translated by ثائر ديب, "common sense" is translated as الفهم الشائع.<br><br>Ben<br clear="all"></span>
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">mamdouh mohamed <<a href="mailto:mamdouh2000@hotmail.com">mamdouh2000@hotmail.com</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'</span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Dear All,
here are a couple of attempts for " common sense"
بدهيات
من البديهي
Mamdouh N. Mohamed Ph.D.
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">"Hilmi, Sana N." <<a href="mailto:shilmi@nvcc.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">shilmi@nvcc.edu</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'</span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">بَـدِيــهــي – بــداهــة Badihi,
مَــنــطِــقــي – المـنـطِــق manTiqi
These words used for common sense. But the second one is also used for Logic.
Now, I don’t speak German, so I got lost in the German part!
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:m7schub@aol.de
Subject:translation for 'common sense'
<br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Dear Prof. Hofheinz,
Wehr has /fahm mushtarak/ for "common sense".
Mod. Hebrew uses the neologism /seHel yashar/ = 'straight (direct) intelligence'.
[also, check out /ma`quuliyyah/ in Wehr.]
Best wishes,
Mike Schub
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Nevine Ibrahim <<a href="mailto:nev.ibrahim@gmail.com">nev.ibrahim@gmail.com</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'<br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><div>Dr. Hofheinz,</div><div> </div><div>Common sense , I would translate as:</div><div>بديهي - الذوق العام - حسن التمييز</div><div>And of course within the context of the sentence.</div><div> </div><div>Nevine Ibrahim</div><div>Certified Arabic court interpreter<br></div></span></span></font></p></pre></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><pre id="nonprop"><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Ola Moshref <<a href="mailto:omoshref@gmail.com">omoshref@gmail.com</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'
<br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">For 'common sense' we'd say بديهيات or أمر بديهي, as derived from intuition because it is not acquired by learning.<div> <br clear="all">Ola Moshref<br>TA Department of Linguistics<br>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br></div></span></span></font></p></pre></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><pre id="nonprop"><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">rehab eldeeb <<a href="mailto:r_eldeeb@aucegypt.edu">r_eldeeb@aucegypt.edu</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'
</span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><div>I would say in Egyptian Colloquial :</div><div><strong>بالعقل كده or بالمنطق كده</strong></div><div>may be in Modern Standard Arabic it could be: <font size="4">منطقياً or بديهياً</font> </div><div class="gmail_quote">hope this could be of any help</div><div class="gmail_quote"> </div><div class="gmail_quote">Rehab El Deeb</div><div class="gmail_quote">Arabic Language Instructor</div><div class="gmail_quote">American University in Cairo</div></span></span></font></p></pre></span>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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