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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Two other false friends between Italian and (Southern) Lebanese Arabic: 🇮🇹 tata (tà·ta) = nanny 🇱🇧 taata (تاتا) = grandma

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No idea why X identifies Lebanese Arabizi as Indonesian, although the translation is somewhat correct (as far as correctness goes for dialectical Arabic in our dialectophobe awful world)

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lebanese Arabic loanword du jour: lowj-لوج from English lounge (as in theater or cinema lounge). often used defined with the preposition bi to mean something is top tier: 3alemēti bil lowj hal semester "my grades are peak this semester"

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Funny false friend between Italian and Lebanese baby talk 😅 'nanna' in Italian refers to sleep; "andiamo a nanna" means "let's go to sleep" but 'nanni' or 'nann' in Lebanese refers to food or eating; "hallaʔ waʔt l nann" means "it's time to eat"

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Cool parallel between Italian and Lev Ar: 'Peccato' and 'ḳTayy(e)' both mean sin and are used to express pity (eng. equivalent would be 'shame') The current word for sin in Lev is 'ḳaTiyye' or 'zanib'; this means that the old pronunciation was fossilized in this usage and some other expressions-

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

2 Leb Ar rare contractions meaning how come? šmiʕna? > šu (or eyš) miʕna kifta? > kīf ḥatta I've the impression that the first one exist in some varieties of Gulf Ar and might only exist my town's dialect. If so, it might be a borrowing since people work there since the 60s. And now I crave kafta

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The antidote to life's miseries: listening to Bob Mortimer's stories on Would I Lie To You? youtu.be/jYvRaczgJ-E?...

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BOB MORTIMER Top Moments | Would I Lie To You?

YouTube video by Would I Lie To You?

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Lebanese Football lingo includes a lot of loanwords⚽ bāSa باصى to pass (the ball) e.g. !ما عم تباصيلي ma ʕam tbāSīli! (you're not passing to me!)

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My own surname undergoes a similar intepreteation of an initial lam as a definite article; my family originally came from a village called اللويزة l-lwayze, so our surname was لويزاني (i)l-lwayzēne before dropping the l

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Lebanese Arabic word that I hear often at least in the South: زهايمر zahaymar/zhaymar or -ir (Alzheimer's) e.g. شو صايبك زهيمر لعم تنسى هالقد؟ šu ṣāybak zahaymir ta-ʕam tinsa hal-ʔad? (Are you getting Alzheimer's forgetting this much?) Dropping the 'Al' as if it were a definite article

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A few years ago, I translated some of Aesop’s Fables into Lebanese Arabic 🇱🇧 Sometimes I translated a version as-is; other times, I built a new version from the various translations on fablesofaesop.com. It was fun! There were 5 or 6 in total that I’ll be sharing here. 1- The Old Man and Death:

translation of a fable by عادل محمود ويزاني

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Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Lebanese Arabic verb of the day: رَمْضَن ramḍan to pass Ramadan somewhere or with someone eg رح رمضن لحالي السنة raħ ramḍən la-ħālə s-sinə I'll spend Ramadan alone this year Does it exist in other dialetcs?

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I'd bet there are at least two or three dozen Egyptians named Ramadan Karim or Karim Ramadan, and likely quite a few named Mubarak Ramadan or Ramadan Mubarak😆 RamaDaan Mbaarak!

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Shakespeare in Lebanese Arabic 😀 What do you think? I like to use the rare demonstrative هك or هاك; I feel like it's fancier than هـ or هيدي I also felt the almost archaic ضيّ fits the register more than the more common ضوّ Also بيضوي instead of بيضوّي

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

post a banger, not in english

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Does 'Standard' Only Mean MSA? Demand a Clear CEFR Definition for Arabic - Firma la petizione! c.org/5MRgCBgTkF via @ChangeItalia

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Firma la petición

Does 'Standard' Only Mean MSA? Demand a Clear CEFR Definition for Arabic

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Anís del moro @anisdelmoro.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Petition addressed to @coe.int to clarify what the CEFR means by 'standard' and whether the term refers solely and exclusively to normative [Modern Standard] Arabic, or else to any native Arabic in relation to its more unique/less common varieties. www.change.org/coe_arabic_c...

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

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!

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I can't see how this meaning could've developed from the Arabic root to be honest. In Italian, they say "andare in tilt" to express a similar meaning.. So I guess this word might come from the TILT error mechanism in pinball machines! When triggered, the whole machine stops working! Wild if true!

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عادل @adel-mwizani.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Lebanese Arabic equivalent: تَلَّت، بيتَلِّت، مْتَلِّت أو مْتَلَّت tallat, bitallit, mtallit/mtallat e.g.: l computer ʕam bitallit raasi mtallit l yowm (I'm lagging; I can't think straight today)

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