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Egyptian Arabic expression
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Arabic Workout 01
This month in Arabic workout: the imperative of رَأَى, how to write the number 9,441,861 in Arabic, and the Egyptian-Arabic phrase "bala neela".
20 questions: Matthew Aldrich (#7)
Episode #7 of my "9273 roots" series: 20 questions for the man who made learning Arabic dialects easy: Matthew Aldrich of Lingualism.
Common uses of ما in Egyptian Arabic explained
The word ما is one of the most difficult words in Egyptian Arabic (and standard Arabic, for that matter). It is often misunderstood.
Common Egyptian Arabic phrases with ما
Some expressions in Egyptian Arabic can be very tricky. They are all related to the word ما. Here is a list with many examples.
Lissa in Egyptian Arabic
When I first started learning Egyptian Arabic, there was one word that gave me a headache: lissa -لِسّه; sometimes spelled لِسَّى or لِسّة. Let's see why.
Etymology of Arabic words: Turkish and Greek influence – prison, ice cream and shoes
There are words in Arabic that don't look Arabic - and they aren't. The etymology of liman, odah, dondurma, shish tawouk, gazma, dughry, fihris.
