Al Wasmy - Altarash

sweety this is not Iraqi .. its a bedoin dialect from the United Arad Emirates =D

if people are looking for great iraqi song, here it is! Its the best (fast forward to the more upbeat song in the middle)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzMhgepTCU

Hey Gole Yas and Sohuda! you guys are alive. remember me?

omgggg your back !!!
what happened to youuuu ! you've been missedd !
how are you sweety ?

Yes! yes! yes!

Definitely it was worth the long wait!!!

Thanks a lot to both Sohuda and Gole

@Gole Yas thanks my translation was very rough considering i barely understood anything
@Salleh Lim yes I am Iraqi
@Cit you're most welcome <3

Hi Sohuda! But i thot Iraqi and Khaleeji is quite similar? =D

Originally Posted by Salleh Lim

Hi Sohuda! But i thot Iraqi and Khaleeji is quite similar? =D

but just quote what Gole Yas said... it's bedoin, not Khaleeji.

Yes, yes. Adri bas el7in, because i'm listening to so many Khaleeji and Iraqi songs and they sound so similar in terms of music and dialect, i wonder why can't they classify Iraqi as Khaleeji as well and not the Mesopotamian dialect.

some 5aleeji words may be foud in an iraqi dialect .. but not vice versa .. iraqi is very different than 5aleeji .. when you are from The Gulf, wherever you go in the GCC (saudi, uae, kuwait, bahrain, oman, qatar).. though few words may difer, your language can be understood, its just the accent that makes it different.. but iraq is a whole different story .. words are 75% different as well as the difference in accents

Originally Posted by Gole Yas

some 5aleeji words may be foud in an iraqi dialect .. but not vice versa .. iraqi is very different than 5aleeji .. when you are from The Gulf, wherever you go in the GCC (saudi, uae, kuwait, bahrain, oman, qatar).. though few words may difer, your language can be understood, its just the accent that makes it different.. but iraq is a whole different story .. words are 75% different as well as the difference in accents

Woooooow! I would have never imagined the difference was so massive! Arabic never ceases to amaze me

Here are few examples how it is said in different dialects

I love reading a lot When I went to the library I only found this old book I wanted to read a book about the history of women in France.

Iraqi āni a7ibb el-qrāya kullish lamman re7it lel-maktaba ma ligēt 3'ēr hāda l-ketāb al-qadīm redet aqra ketāb 3an tarī5' al-7arim eb-fransa
Saudi ana a7ob il-grāya kthīr lamma ro7t l-mekteba ma lgēt 3'ēr hada l-ktāb il-gedīm wa kont ab3'a agra ktāb 3an tarī5' il-7arīm fi fransa
Kuwaitiāna wāyed a7ibb agrā lamman re7t al-maktaba ma ligēt illa hal ketāb al-gadīm kent abī agra ketāb an tarī5' el-7arīm eb fransa

OMGGGGGGGGGGG!!!! I WAS READING ABT THIS A FEW WEEKS AGO ONLINE!!!! Wad coincidence! I even had to stop a Kuwaiti family here to ask them abt their use of WAYED. I was surprised and got even more confused when i found out they even have a dialect word for a lot =(

Some more fun Iraqi words...

rayyuug - breakfast
timman - rice
raggi - melon
hwaaya - a lot
khaashuuga - spoon
meez - table

Just a few of the top of my head : )

Originally Posted by jbutl16

khaashuuga - spoon

Is this the same spoon Dominique is singing abt? =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK8vqcx1YPI

Yes! I didn't know they used this word in Lebanon also. Then again, she has a very peculiar way of singing. She kind of sounds durzi.

yee ya3tekon el 3afye banat <3

allah y3afeeki 7ubi <3

Hmmmm translating these songs/poems into english my or will ruin them, but damn you have good taste!