Arabic-L:TRANS:aaraabiizi responses

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Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:aaraabiizi response

fi 'arabiizi: loosely, in this context = with me, in my hair, in my 
face, i.e. annoying

... el-3ayyela di abqa a3mel biiha eeh? ya3ni aakhretha yesiibha fe
aaraabiizi yebqa ya farheti ya hanaaya...

I don't understand "'aaraabiizi". Is it a location in Alexandria? An
orphanage?

The speaker is irritated because the child is being left with him:

What the heck am I going to do with this kid?
Is he at the end of it all now going to leave her in my hair?  Great!

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2)
Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:Humphrey Davies <hdavies at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:aaraabiizi response

Hinds-Badawi gives:
fi-qarabiiz- (also fi-qarbuuz-) in the area of responsibi lity of, in 
the lap of. HaTTeet il-Hikaaya f-qarabiiz-u I dumped the matter into his 
lap, I left the matter up to him. wiqi' fi-qarbuuz-i It delvolved upon 
me.
 
All the best,
Humphrey Davies

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3)
Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:khorshid <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:aaraabiizi response

"'arabiizi" is not a real thing. The expression yuq9ud/yuqa9 fi 
'arabiizi just
means I'm stuck with it. Compare "yishidd Hailu", where "Hail" is not a 
real
thing.

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4)
Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:zeinab Ibrahim <zeinabib at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:aaraabiizi response

The expression /yisibhaa fii 'arabiizii/ means that this person will be 
stuck
with whatever s/he is left with.

Zeinab Ibrahim

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