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

Seasons

The Seasons	ilmawaseem	المواسم
spring	ilrabee3	الربيع
summer	ilSeef	الصيف
autumn	ilkhareef	الخريف
winter	ilshetta	الشتاء
season	faSl / moseem	فصل – موسم
hot	Harr	حر
feeling hot	Harran / Harrana ( m/ f)	حران – حرانه
cold	bard	برد
feeling cold	bardaan / bardana ( m /F )	بردان – بردانه
weather	il gaw	الجو
rain	maTara	مطره
wind	reyaaH	رياح
fog	Dabaab	ضباب
dew	nada	ندا
Snow -  ice	talg	تلج
warm	dafee	دافى
sun	shams	شمس
air condition	takeyyif	تكييف
heater	dafayya	دفايه

-         il gaw Harr awi innharda .     -  the weather is very hot today

-         ana harran .                          -  I feel hot

-         il gaw bard awi .                   - the weather is very cold

-         ana bardaan   .                      -  I feel cold  

The eed in Egypt

''3eed sa3eed " - "happy eed "

after Ramadan we celebrate the breaking of our fast for 3 dayes .

1 -''il kaHk ''  eed cookies
before the Egyptians used to the last two dayes of Ramadan in baking " il kaHk " which is the eed cookies but now most of the people buy ready made ones .

2 -''geeting ready for guests''
by cleaning the house and wash everythings to make everything looks new again and waiting for the guests

3 - '' new money - 3eedeyya '' 

also Egyptians go to the bank and exchange old money for new money ,, because in eed you must give any child you see in the family '' 3eedeyya " new money and these ''

3eedeyya '' start from 5 le to 100 le it depends on how old is the child and how rich you are .
after the first day the child now almost had his 3eedeyya from every one in the family so he can buy any thing he wants or he can save it if he wants .

4 -"new clothes'' - ''libs gedeed ''
also every child should have a new set of clothes for the eed ,, also every wife should have " 3eedeyya " and also new clothes from the husband "" ooh poor man ..lol.

5 - " zakat il feTr "
in the last day of Ramadaan you we have to pay " zakat il feTr " and these zakah is amount of seeds or you can pay money both go to poor pepole the seeds to eat or the money to get new clothes or give 3eedeyya to their children  ,, and you give these zakah in order that your fasting will be accepted from Alah .

6 -"Salat il 3eed" - the eed prayer 
in the first day of eed we have a special prayer at 6 o'clock in the early  morning these prayer must be in the street so all muslim families gather and pray short prayer and give the children candy and cookies and after the prayer we start to visit and go out .

I hope you enjoy the eed with us and have a happy eed .
 
 

Fruits - fak-ha , or fawakeh

Apple –toffaH

apricots - meshmesh                         

banana - mooz

cherries - kreez

dates - balaH

figs - teen

Grape - 3enab

green melon - kantalob

guava - gawafa

lemon - lamoon

Mandarin - yostafandi

mango - manga

Orange - borto'an

peaches - khokh

pear - kommetra

pineapple - ananas

strawberry - farawla

water melon - baTeekh

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