Arabic-L:LING:Verb Innovation responses

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Date: 17 Jan 2007
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at mac.com>
Subject:Verb Innovation response

Off the top of my head, here are a few that I've heard:

Form II ("technological" terms):
fallala (Jordanian) and fawwala (Egyptian): to fill a car with petrol
sayyava: to save a file on a computer disk

Form V "Quadraliterals" (used humorously):
tasambatsha: to call someone an S.O.B.
tadamfala (heard second hand): to call someone a "Damn fool" (as in  
"al-Ingiliiz yatadamfalu huwayya", heard from an Iraqi),

I'm sure there are lots more.

-Dan.

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Date: 17 Jan 2007
From:"Srpko Lestaric" <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject:Verb Innovation response

Dear :"Lior Laks",

There is many nice examples. My first two are pretty classical, yet  
quite colloquial or even dialectal. Here you are:

1. heard in Libya in the eighties, later on used throughout Levant,  
Iraq and Kuwait:

tbeznes -- yitbeznes -- mitbeznis = to be in [dirty] business


2. successfully used with delegations from different Arab countries  
during visits to a car factory in Europe:

tyebben -- yityebben -- mityebbin = to get somewhat japanese look  
[shuuf el-yoom kullu-s-seyyaaraat tyebbenet]

For the next one, quite everyday word in Iraq, I've never found out  
the exact etimology (it might have something to do with chief - - -?):

3. jeffet - yjeffit - tejfiit = to do general overhaul of an engine

The next is heard mainly in the Gulf:

4. kensel - ykensil - mkensil = [<] cancel

Cheers,
Srpko

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Date: 17 Jan 2007
From:"Madiha Doss" <madihadoss at yahoo.com>
Subject:Verb Innovation response

There are quite a few forms which developed from the computer  
terminolgy, such as kansil from "cancel", farmat from "to format".  
Also ovwar< over, meaning "to exagerate" , fanyesh "to finish". These  
are some I could think of.
Madiha Doss

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Date: 17 Jan 2007
From:Andrew Dempsey <andrew at kairosit.com>
Subject:Verb Innovation response

You might already have these, but here's a few from Egyptian Arabic:

yisanntar - to center something (like a car in a parking space, etc.)
yisayyif - to save something (like a document) on a computer
yihannig - to "hang" (refers uniquely to a computer hanging)

Regards,
Andrew

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