Achomi and Bandari too. laylām لَیلام = auction laylām kerda لَیلام کِردَه = to auction Idiomatically in Achomi, the verb laylām kerda also means 'to destroy, ruin'. mači laylām šokerde! مَچی لَیلام شُکِردِه 'they've ruined everything!'

Markˣ@shjsat.bsky.social · last wk.

Here is a sample map showing languages that have borrowed Portuguese leilão. Hanzal (1998) writes that, in the Emirates, the word lēlām was introduced recently by sellers of secondhand goods. In Qatar, Al-Maliki (2000) describes a similar meaning. Auctions are not mentioned.

Uncle just said in Achomi: Starbucks te kone bez ham haste ستاربکس تِه کُنِ بِز هم هَسته "there's Starbucks even on a wasp's ass" i.e. you can find it everywhere bez بِز 'wasp' (probably onomatopoeic like English buzz, or from Middle Persian wabz 'wasp')

Similar thing happens in some southern Iranian dialects. The preposition a اَ can be both 'to' and 'from'. a šar a dar andin 'they came out of the town' In this sentence, the first a is 'from' and the second a is 'to'.

Markˣ@shjsat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Should we talk about how Omani Arabic من can mean both "from (a place)" and "toward (a direction)"? 🤔

My grandma used to say (in Achomi, my heritage language): herr az berr nāfahmedāy هِر از بِر نافَهمِدای 'he can't tell his hirr from his birr' She explained it as referring to the similarity between the two words when written down in Perso-Arabic script:

Dr. Valerie@drvalerieisin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

People around here would say: “He can’t tell his ass from his elbow.” What do they say in your neck of the woods?

A large fishing net in Bahrain is called ġazil غزل, pl. ġzūl غزول, i.e. 'spun or woven thing'.

Peter Tarras@petertarras.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Some #Arabic words for nets and traps: شبكة /šabaka/ شرك /šarak/ مصيدة /maṣyada/ as in Proverbs 1:17-18 (Sin. ar. 597, ff. 39r-v): ينصبون شركهم ومصايدهم افكا ودغلا كما تنصب الشبكه للطير /yanṣubūna šurukahum wa-maṣāyidahum ʾifkan wa-daġalan kamā tunṣabu š-šabaka li-ṭ-ṭayr/ ET 👇

The unthinkable happened. US-Israeli bombs have damaged the Qajar palace complex of Golestan in central Tehran. The hall of mirrors is damaged. 200 year old wooden panels are destroyed. I have no idea what else. This is now personal.

kaboom kaplow

Dang drone sounded like it was right above our house, I was bracing for impact

The same verb means 'to close' in Bahrain and eastern Saudi. bannad, ybannid, etc From Hindi-Urdu band 'closed', from Persian band- 'to close'.

عادل@adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Another Lebanese Arabic loanword: بَنّد، تْبَنَّد bannad, tbannad to ban, to get banned e.g.: bannadūni 3a Facebook tbannad ḥsēbi 3a Insta What’s cool about it is that it’s borrowed from the past tense form of the English verb "to ban" in order to get the productive trilateral root b n d!

Looks like Qabus will be getting an email from the plagiarism office

/nəˈθænjəl/@nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 8mo ago

They revel in my misfortune— tell them misfortune picks on people who actually matter: corpses float on the waves but in the ocean depths lie pearls. If time's clenched me in her painful fingers— well, the stars in the sky are countless. Only the sun and moon get eclipsed. — Qabus ibn Wushmagir

The only ones in Bahraini Arabic I know of (but are now old-timey and obsolete): bulīsxāna 'police station' karxāna 'sewing machine'

Markˣ@shjsat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Iraqi Arabic nouns ending in -ḫāna ʔazzaḫāna pharmacy ǧāmḫāna china closet tallaḫāna casino tanbalḫāna a place to relax čāyḫāna teahouse ḫastaḫāna hospital musāfirḫāna traveller's house bānzīnḫāna gas station dīwaḫāna parlor zōrḫāna a kind of oriental gymnasium karḫāna factory; brothel ṃayyḫāna bar

Bahraini Arabic word of the day ʕār, yʕūr 'to double over' خلاني اعور من الضحك xallāni āʕūr min iḏ̣-ḏ̣iḥik 'He made me double over with laughter' (I've only ever heard it in the present tense)

Earliest attestation is in a verse from the 10th century Baghdadi cookbook Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh: وأركبت ساف لحم فوق أليته وساف من بصل حلو ومن تمن 'A layer of meat underneath of which lies a layer of its own fat, and another of sweet onion, another of rice'

Dr. Rachel Schine@rachelschine.bsky.social · 8mo ago

At the risk of asking a dumb question, why is rice تمن and not رز in Iraqi dialect? Is this a loan from somewhere obvious?

Another one (almost) is: Ar. ʕayn 'eye; spring' MP. čašm 'eye', čašmag 'spring'

Andarzgar@andarzgar.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Fascinating how the same homonym occurs in both Middle Persian and Arabic: MP. dād (‘age’, ‘tooth’) Ar. sinn (‘age’, ‘tooth’)

Twitter sucks (doesn't send notifications to people I reply to and wastes my time), and I remembered that this place exists. Wow, a lot of names I haven't seen in ages here