italki - Egyptian Arabic is not pure Arabic (Using some coptic words ) Ah

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Jan Hanna

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Egyptian Arabic is not pure Arabic (Using some coptic words ) Ah - from the Coptic word "Aha", meaning yes

Shebsheb - from the Coptic "seb-sweb," which means the measurement of feet

Kokha - Coptic for dirt
Embu - originates from the Coptic word for water

Mumm - derived from the Coptic word "mout" and the Demotic word "ounum", meaning eat

Bo3bo3 - originates from a Coptic name for a ghost, used to scare children

Sett - Coptic for woman

Tanesh - derived from the Coptic for ignore

Ba7 - the Coptic word for finished

Fouta - Coptic for towel

Taboot - from the Coptic for coffin

7antoor - derived from "han" a word referring to plural objects, and "hatoor" meaning horses

7anafeya - the word for faucet

Khonn - from the Coptic word "khoun", which means inside

Rokh - the Coptic word for drop/fall

Sahd - the Coptic word for hot

Zarta - the Coptic word for… wind (yes, really)

Fatafeat - Coptic for crumbs or small pieces

Wawa - from the Coptic word used to express pain

Nunu - the Coptic word for small/little

'Outa - Coptic for tomato

Feb 1, 2018 3:05 AM

I think there is a bad choice of word. You should have said that Egyptian Arabic is not pure standard Arabic.

Then may I know which Arabic is considered as the standard Arabic?

February 1, 2018

These are not Arabic words at all .

February 1, 2018

Jan Hanna

Language Skills

Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Modern Standard), Croatian, Czech, English, Other, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian

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Croatian, Czech, Other, Polish

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