I've been mulling this as an idea for a thread for a long while now. Not sure if it'll work but here goes! Post any word in another language. Tell us what language and what the word means.
Marhaba is Arabic (Lebanese dialect) for hello.
And book languages like Elvish or Latin are invited too!
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Aadaab (Urdu): Hello
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Dia duit (irish) Hello. dia means god it irish so saying hello is like giving the blessing of god. the reply is Dia is Mhuire Duit.-may god and mary bless you. so basicly its hello for short.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Isten (Hungarian) - God
Nihao (chinese)-Hello
agus- Irish for AND.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Great idea......Originally Posted by andave_ya
I've been mulling this as an idea for a thread for a long while now. Not sure if it'll work but here goes! Post any word in another language. Tell us what language and what the word means.
Marhaba is Arabic (Lebanese dialect) for hello.
And book languages like Elvish or Latin are invited too!
In Tunis i stayed at a hotel called MARHABA, now i know what the word really means
Olá (portuguese) means hello.
onomatopoeia English when the sound of a word or phrase indicates the meaning
Tere - hello in estonian (pronounciation about like Teh-reh)
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
abyssus is supposed to be Latin for hello. If you meet a dead guy that looks like Ceaser, find out!
Last edited by Pendragon; 06-12-2007 at 09:15 AM.
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
shalom (Hebrew), means peace
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
Namaskar / Pranam -- meaning Hello or Welcome
Shanti -- meaning Peace / Quiet
in Hindi
A familiar word! It's in a song I like and now I know exactly what it means!
gibnae Arabic for cheese
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Paz - peace
Queijo - Cheese
The words above are in portuguese.
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