The months of the year - shehoor ilsana

The months of the year	shehoor ilsana
January	yanaayir
February	febraayir
March	maaris
April	abriil
May	maayo
June	younya
July	youlya
August	aghostos
September	sebtember
October	oktobar
November	novamber
December	disamber

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Close Pronunciation

Hi

This time we will have a funny article about some Arabic words which have very close pronunciation, so you may have a mistake only in one vowel, but you totally change the meaning .

I remember two funny situation happened with two of my students, first student went to the hair dresser shop and he asked her what would she like to drink so she want tea with milk – which is " shay billaban " – but she said " shay wi leban " and the man get her tea and gum because laban "milk" but she makes it up with leban which is gum .

Also I had another student , she was told that the word " hammam " is bathroom , and she was invited to dinner in Egyptian restaurant and her Egyptian husband and his friend want to order pigeon which is " hamam "  and they are talking in Arabic and she was very astonished why every one is talking about the toilet – LOL

Arabic Close pronunciation	English meaning
maktab maktaba	desk library
Hammam Hamam	Bathroom pigeon
laban leban	Milk Gum
maTara maTar	Rain Airport
3arabi 3arabeyya	Arabic Car
ragiil regl	Man Leg
sett setta	Woman Six
meen meneen	Who From where
sha3r shahr she3r	Hair Month Poem
yoom toom	Day garlic
mayya miaa	Water Hundred
game3 gam3a	Mosque University
ezzaz ezzaza	Glass Bottle
sa3a sama3a	Watch Earphone – speaker
kalb alb	Dog Heart
sem semsem	Poison Sesame
3alam 'alam	Flag Pen
amrika mazika	USA Music
film Helm	Film Dream
ta3baan te3baan	Sick Snake
eed 3eed	Hand Feast
Hama sama	father-in-law sky
laHma zaHma	Meat Jam
sana sena	Year Tooth
kosa bosa	Zucchini kiss
shamal shemaal	North Left
oTTa ooTa	cat Tomatoes
faka fak-ha farkha	Money change Fruits Chicken