Re: Judajca
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 22, 2002, 18:48 |
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:23:44 +0000 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
writes:
> Does "Al-Maghreb Al-Akbar" happen to be mean "the great western
> land" or
> something like that? (Just checking whether I'm totally blank on
> Arabic or
> merely almost totally blank on it.)
>
> Andras
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Pretty much; it means (as well as i can remember, my Arabic is sort of
scrambled after having taken two semesters' worth of Japanese this
summer) "The Greater West".
-Stephen (Steg), who will hopefully be taking more Arabic this year.
"alSayf, kasayf abyad..."
(summer, like a white sword...)
~ sally caves (did she know that it's alliterative in Arabic?)