Originally Posted by Oriee

in egyptian i guess

there's always saying merci 5ales, since they use it in egypt

i'm not sure any way motashekkera ya sa7bi, da enta el gameel

inshalla they are correct

yes, egyptian accent... shoukran kteer ya sadiqati

@ koukla we all stil understand each other and share some words... may be it's like American, Ausralian and English accents
but my self when i think about it, i say why is that since it's all Arabic at the end???

rica ederim

@ Zahra
al 3fw

@indelwyn will check it

@ indelwyn
it's really good that you told me about it coz, i really didn't see it

why don't you try to trasfer some of them to CDs or to flash memory... may be you like to keep them infront of your eyes all the time

i'm afraid there's some mistakes, i mean
you say to a guy kefak, but the last k is something like single you so, so you say kef without "k".
kefo khayak
kifhon (kifon) khwank..

i will see the website you mentioned

I see. Well I asked it cuz I might probably go to Morocco in December, I wanna learn some phrases....so I can check out these threads!

Originally Posted by Koukla

I see. Well I asked it cuz I might probably go to Morocco in December, I wanna learn some phrases....so I can check out these threads!

morocco accent is so different than Egyptian or other arabic accents koukla
but i think if u use the arabic fus7a (classic arabic) they`ll understand u
and yes u can look here for the ordinary use words in fus7a they`ll help u
or ask what ever u want and we`ll do our best for u
tmm!

Merci canımmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! xxxx

rica ederim koukla

Koukla if you know some French you can communicate well with them since in Morocco takes French too..

Yes but I can't speak French

selam koukla, u r going to morocco! this is great i wish i can visit there soon. you can check out this website. it has useful stuff and there is also a forum there where you can ask for help about some phrases to use during your visit.

http://www.speakmoroccan.com/

i hope it will be useful for you.

Pınarcım, cok sagol!!! xxx

rica ederim, umarım yardımcı olur ve şimdiden iyi eğlenceler

what do you say after somebody sneezes in arabic. is there somehting like god bless you? thanks

you either say : SA7A or YAR7AMOKOUM ALLAH ( god bless )

oh yeah when you say YAR7AMOKOUM ALLAH ( god bless ) the other guy should reply saying :
ATHAPANA WA ATHAPAKOUM ALLAH

Hi,

My mother was Syrian. When I was little, my father called me "deenee" (phonetic spelling as I remember it). I always thought that it meant darling in Syrian (Arabic) but, recently, I read Sitti's Secret by Naomi Nye and found out that "habibi" means darling.

I don't speak Syrian (Arabic). I've asked my 88 year old aunt in Canton, OH what the word means but she didn't know.

I'm sorry that this is not a song lyric but could someone please tell me what my father was calling me? : )

Thanks,

Astarte

i'm afraid they were calling you pampering name not a real name

Hi Orlee,

Thank you! I like that phrase - "pampering name". Probably similar to a "pet name" or like a term of endearment which only has meaning in the family circle.

Astarte

deeenee = my religion and i believe that your father used to say " yes'ed deenee " and we use that a lot and i bet that he used to smile when he said it to you.

Hi Louie,

Thank you for your reply. Is the phrase "yes'ed deenee" another example of a pampering name without meaning?

Astarte