Arabic-L:LING:More Acronyms

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Date:  11 Oct 2001
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: More Acronyms

Here some acronyms which I can't remember to have seen in the earlier
responses:

taa'		tilifuun
jim		jawaab (in police reports for ex)
sin		su'aal (same)
dhal		'ustaadh (lawyer, judge etc.)
sin taa'	sijill tijaariyy (trade register)
sin mim	centimetre
shin		shaari3 (street)
Saad		SafHa (page)
Saad Baa'	Sunduuq al-bariid (P.O. Box)

Jan

Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland
Department of Arabic, Nijmegen University (the Netherlands)
PO Box 9103, NL 6500 HD Nijmegen, the Netherlands
phone +-31-24-3615676, fax +-31-24-3500719, E-mail: J.HOOGLAND at LET.KUN.NL
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