Julia Butros - Ya 2ossass

Hello!! Can somebody check and correct this please??

Thanks a lot in advance



يا قصص عم تكتب أسامينـــا
Ya 2o9a9 3am tektub asaameena
Oh forelocks! You’re writing our names

ع زمان الماضي وتمحينــــــا
3 zamaan el maadhi w tam7eena
(And you’re writing) about past times and our disappearance

جينا نحنا وغنانينـــــــــــــــا
Jeena na7na we ghnaaneena
We arrived and sang

والرقص يضوي ليالينـــــــــا
Wer-ra29 yedhouwe layaleena
and dancing illuminated our nights

ليالينا .. ليالينا
Layaleena…layaleena
Our nights…our nights



يا قصص من بالك شيلينـــــا
Ya 2o9a9 men baalek sheeleena
Oh forelocks! Forget about us

وبقلب الحاضر خلينــــــــــــا
W be2alb el7aadher khaleena
And with your heart bring us to the present

شو بدك بزمان الماضـــــــي
Shou badek bezamaan el maadhi
What do you want with the past?

إحنا ما خلقنا لماضينـــــــــــا
E7na ma khala2na lemaadheena
We didn’t invent our past

ليالينا .. ليالينا
Layaleena…layaleena
Our nights…our nights



يا زمن بالقصص المنسيــــة
Ya zamaan bel 2o9a9 elmanseeya
Oh times of forgotten forelocks

أو بالأحلام الورديــــــــــــــة
Aw bel a7laam elwardeeya
Or of rosy dreams

لا تتركنا أسرى امبــــــــارح
La tatrekna asra embaare7
Don’t let us remember the yesterday

ولا ننطر بكرة ليليـــــــــــــة
Wala nan6er bokra leyleeya
And let’s not expect for tomorrow’s night

ليالينا .. ليالينا
Layaleena…layaleena
Our nights…our nights

Thanks, the lines of the main lyrics are so connected to each other so you can't just translate it seperately it changes the meaning..here my notes

يا قصص عم تكتب أسامينـــا
Ya 2o9a9 3am tektub asaameena
Oh forelocks! You’re writing our names
Oh stories that write our past...]
ع زمان الماضي وتمحينــــــا
3 zamaan el maadhi w tam7eena
(And you’re writing) about past times and our disappearance
....on the past time then erase us
جينا نحنا وغنانينـــــــــــــــا
Jeena na7na we ghnaaneena
We arrived and sang
here we come with our songs( here we came singing)
والرقص يضوي ليالينـــــــــا
Wer-ra29 yedhouwe layaleena
and dancing illuminated our nights
with dancing to brighten our nights
ليالينا .. ليالينا
Layaleena…layaleena
Our nights…our nights
يا قصص من بالك شيلينـــــا
Ya 2o9a9 men baalek sheeleena
Oh forelocks! Forget about us
Oh stories! Forget about us/could be/ let go of us
وبقلب الحاضر خلينــــــــــــا
W be2alb el7aadher khaleena
And with your heart bring us to the present
and leave us in the center ( the middle)of present
شو بدك بزمان الماضـــــــي
Shou badek bezamaan el maadhi
What do you want with the past? better without the
إحنا ما خلقنا لماضينـــــــــــا
E7na ma khala2na lemaadheena
We didn’t invent our past
we hadn't been made for our past( meaning god hasn't created us to live stuck in our past
ليالينا .. ليالينا
Layaleena…layaleena
Our nights…our nights

يا زمن بالقصص المنسيــــة
Ya zamaan bel 2o9a9 elmanseeya
Oh times of forgotten forelocks
أو بالأحلام الورديــــــــــــــة
Aw bel a7laam elwardeeya
Or of rosy dreams
Oh time! either in forgotten tales or rosy dreams...
لا تتركنا أسرى امبــــــــارح
La tatrekna asra embaare7
Don’t let us remember the yesterday
....don't leave us prisoners(hosages) to our past..
ولا ننطر بكرة ليليـــــــــــــة
Wala nan6er bokra leyleeya
And let’s not expect for tomorrow’s night
....nor to wait for tomorrow every night
ليالينا .. ليالينا
Layaleena…layaleena
Our nights…our nights


***forelock= apiece of hair that falls over someone's head- the hair on the horse head

قصص-= stories- tales
ليلية-leyleeya= every night

Thank you very much for all your corrections, comments & your time Incriptedtruth I truly appreciate it.

Yes, I knew قِصَة (qi9a, with kasra) means "story", but since here it's pronounced as 2o9a (with damma) I looked it up and found in my dictionary it means "forelock"!! So I presumed Julia may be singing to a man with nice cute curls dangling on his forehead LOL (I'm considering chucking out my dictionary after this )


Concerning this:

Originally Posted by incriptedtruth

شو بدك بزمان الماضـــــــي
Shou badek bezamaan el maadhi
What do you want with the past? better without the
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In this case "past" is a noun, so it needs the article. If it was an adjective then it may be left out under certain circumstances:

-In the past (noun) there were no mobile phones.

-In past times (adjective [past]+ noun [times]) mobile phones were extremely expensive and quite big and heavy.

No problem , you're welcome
yea i understand how puffeling the pronounciation gets sometimes me myself suffer alot from that


about The past, i prefered omitting (The) for rhythmatic purpose, it s heavey on the ear, we can say( what do you want from our past)or what do you want from past time which is the main subject in the poem, but now you got me suspecious about it ,ill double check

thank you for commenting tho

Hehehe...my Arabic is basic and poor, still in nappies ; but you can trust me in English -well, that is concerning good grammar, although in terms of adapting and making something sound nice and singable, then I'm afraid I'm useless

قصص= stories
وبقلب الحاضر خلينــــــــــــا
W be2alb el7aadher khaleena
and in the heart of the present let us

إحنا ما خلقنا لماضينـــــــــــا
E7na ma khala2na lemaadheena
we weren't born to our past

لا تتركنا أسرى امبــــــــارح
La tatrekna asra embaare7
don't leave us prisoners of yesterday

Originally Posted by citlalli

Hehehe...my Arabic is basic and poor, still in nappies ; but you can trust me in English -well, that is concerning good grammar, although in terms of adapting and making something sound nice and singable, then I'm afraid I'm useless

hehehe ,I trust you you do the grammar and ill make it singable

Just a little note:
قلب does mean heart... but in dialect it's used as inside...
so I'd say
بقلب الخزانة
بقلب الكتاب
It means inside/ in

Originally Posted by Oriee

Just a little note:
قلب does mean heart... but in dialect it's used as inside...
so I'd say
بقلب الخزانة
بقلب الكتاب
It means inside/ in

exactly, so goes for the meaning ( in the middle of, in the center of)
as the common expression, in the middle of the event=بقلب الحدث
thanks oriee

Originally Posted by Oriee

Just a little note:
قلب does mean heart... but in dialect it's used as inside...
so I'd say
بقلب الخزانة
بقلب الكتاب
It means inside/ in

Hey Oriee! Nice to see u here 2

Yes, thanks for the remark. In English "heart" can also be used in that way, as Louie pointed out: it's possible to say that someone/something is at the heart of an event/incident/controversy, etc. meaning it is right in the middle/centre of it.