Arabic-L:LING:Borrowed verbs in Kuwaiti

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From: Bill Young <byoung at casl.umd.edu>
Subject:Borrowed verbs in Kuwaiti

There are many examples of borrowed verbs in colloquial Arabic.  In  
Kuwait the English verb “to finish” has been adopted in the form  
/fannaš, yifanniš/, with the meaning “to fire someone from a job.”  See  
Hamdi Qafisheh’s Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary, p. 486.

William C. Young
Researcher
Center for the Advanced Study of Language
University of Maryland
 
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