Arabic-L:TRANS:shidd heelak, aaraabiizi

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Arabic-L: Wed 31 Jul 2002
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1) Subject:shidd heelak query
2) Subject:shidd heelak response
3) Subject:shidd heelak again
4) Subject:aaraabiizi

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1)
Date:  31 Jul 2002
From:"Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:shidd heelak query

[Moderator's note: this posting is a good example of something I would 
like to encourage: continuing an exchange with the individuals involved, 
and then posting the entire exchange.  This has the potential of saving 
time, and of making more sense to the readers. Then if someone has 
something to add, they can do so, but we won't have multiple posts of 
the original answer.  Thanks, Dil]

  What does  /yishidd  Hailu/  mean?  How is it used?

Thanks.                    --Mike Schub

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2)
Date:  31 Jul 2002
From:Michel Naggar <mnaggar at sympatico.ca>
Subject:shidd heelak response

Dear Mike,
yishidd means to pull, Hail is not a real thing. Together, yishidd Hailu 
means
to do his best. If you are preparing for a test or the like, people tell 
you
shidd Hailak. It can also be used as a term of condolance if you lose a 
dear
person.

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3)
Date:  31 Jul 2002
From:"Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:shidd heelak

  Dear Khorshid,
      Thank you very much.
      The root Hyl is a proto-Semitic root for "strength, power,"
thus "Heile Selassie" in Ethiopic corresponds to proto-Arabic "Hayl al-
thalaatha~the Power of the Trinity."
     Could the origin of yishidd  Heilak be "may your strength be
renewed/increased"??
      Best wishes,
                                      Mike Schub

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4)
Date:  31 Jul 2002
From:Michel Naggar <mnaggar at sympatico.ca>
Subject:arabbeezi

Humphrey Davies' response is very instructive.

While arabbeezi is used in common current speech in the sense everybody
agrees on - abubdantly and clearly given in all responses, it never 
occured
to me that it derived from, even is in the singular form of a word that 
had
a concrete material meaning as well, until I read Humphrey's response.

In the Mu3gam of the Académie de langue arabe in Cairo, it is QARABOUS,
plural QARABIS, and is the saddlebow, i.e. in the lap; which is the 
precise
meaning, and figuratively a responsibility I have no use for.  Of course,
the S and the Z are interchangeable colloqually, like in besella and
bezella, mohandes and mohandez, etc.

Michel Naggar
Montreal

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