#egyptian arabic

[learnarabicin25years]

Gaza / Egypt Vocab 4

مجزرة -- majzara, though I've heard it pronounced majazara (and maybe spelled مجازرة) -- massacre, slaughter (from the same root as the word for butcher, jazzar)

مشاغب -- mushaghib -- troublemaker (this is the one from Egypt, on the anniversary of Jan 25, 2011)

#arabic #langblr #arabic langblr #studyblr #arabic language #egyptian arabic #jan25

[sobeksewerrat]

Egyptian Arabic is so funny like I can literally call you a dog, a donkey, the love of my life, an old man, my uncle, my dad and a fucking bicycle all in the same sentence and it would still make perfect sense and be interpreted as a perfectly valid and epic roast

#brainingsewer #sobek freakposting #egyptian arabic

[geoazie]

Aesthetic of the languages on earth : Egyptian Arabic

Egyptian Arabic is a Semitic vernicular dialect of Arabic spoken by 83 million people. It is spoken in Egypt.

#egyptian arabic #arabic #semitic #afroasiatic #moodboard #aesthetic #languages #language #egypt #africa #north africa

[wo-bu-hui-shuo-zhongwen]

langblr reactivation challenge week 3

Day 6: Create a post explaining a grammar rule that you had/are having difficulties learning. If you’re currently having difficulties, do your best to explain and ask others to help you understand it better. Include example sentences in your explanation.

Active participles in Egyptian Arabic

"ing" - in Egyptian Arabic, this is used more often than the equivalent in English because it describes most action that is happening now and sometimes also the recent past (I was just eating - I just ate).

active participles are matched with the subject with the feminine ending -a and the plural ending -iin.

(ex) 9aarif ; 9arfa ; 9arfiin

huwwa 9aarif samia. he knows Samia

inti 9arif samia? you (f) know Samia?

iHna 9arifiin samia. We know Samia.

mish is used to negate the active participle.

(ex) ana mish 9arfa. I don't know.

adding lissa can mean "just" (finished doing) or "still" (doing) based on the verb

(ex) ana lissa wakla. I've just eaten.

(ex) huwwa lissa nayim. He's still sleeping.

#langblr reactivation challenge #language learning #foreign languages #studyblr #langblr challenge #arabic #egyptian arabic #grammar

[iseleylaura]

𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐀!! 🐫

13” x 15” * hand-cut analog collage

(the last pharaoh of Egypt takes shit from no man)

#cleopatra #collage #analog collage #art process #cleopatra tomb #ancient egypt #ancient egyptian art #ancient egyptian history #marc antony and cleopatra #shakespeare #paper collage #collage on paper #artists on tumblr #TikTok #TikTok video #egyptian arabic #ahwak #collage aesthetic #collage art #collage artist #cut and paste #cut and paste collage #papercraft #prints available #women #divine feminine #feminist art #pharaoh #egyptian mythology #archaeological

[anakinsafterlife]

A fantastic song and moving video from one of Egypt's most well-known current singers. The song is in Egyptian Arabic but is full of western influences as well, including a rap interlude. Such a great piece.

#music #arabic #egypt #egyptian arabic #عربي #nasma mahgoub #Youtube

[fag4arabs]

Eyes up here fag! Look at me! I know what you want, you little cum whore! On your knees now and let me fuck your throat. I need to unload in one of your holes

#arab master #arab superiority #muslim supremacy #mnwo #muslim superiority #maître rebeu #rebeu #rebeu gay #rebeux #on your knees #moroccan #algeria #libya #egyptian #algerian

[feluka]

every day i learn something new about this world <3 something completely false and racist but new nonetheless <3 keeps life fresh and exciting!

#actually egypt stands for extra gay yaoi pussy time. like a wise blog once said. #ANYWAY. 'what did you bring' would be 'gypt eh' not 'eh gypt' #and also the name egypt comes from the greek name for us. which predates the arabization of egypt. #also what egyptians called egypt used to be kemet and now masr. literally no arguments made here shskdike

[anukisdabbled]

#wanted to share so im not the only one going feral over this song #oh and its NOT out yet 🥲 #cue me playing this a million times while i wait #nxdia #lesbian #wlw #arabic #lgbt #egyptian #sudanese #music break

[somehowwow]

Mohieddine Ellabbad, 1998

#arab art #gaza #boycott divest sanction #art #egyptian art

[moroccanegyptianprincess]

Looking like a tangerine. 🍊😂

#me #egyptian #moroccan #east coast #virgo #mine #arab girls

[upennmanuscripts]

CAJS Rar Ms 166 is an 18th century copy of the Pentateuch and Historical Books (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles) in Arabic translation. Every book has a gorgeous painted heading. Written in Egypt.

🔗:

#manuscript #18th century #arabic #Egyptian #Egypt #bible #pentateuch #illustrated #painted #book history #rare books

[bijoumikhawal]

hello! i hope it's alright to ask you this but i was wondering if you have any recommendations for books to read or media in general about the history of judaism and jewish communities in egypt, particularly in ottoman and modern egypt?

have a nice day!

it's fine to ask me this! Unfortunately I have to preface this with a disclaimer that a lot of books on Egyptian Jewish history have a Zionist bias. There are antizionist Egyptian Jews, and at the very least ones who have enough national pride that AFAIK they do not publicly hold Zionist beliefs, like those who spoke in the documentary the Jews of Egypt (avaliable on YouTube for free with English subtitles). Others have an anti Egyptian bias- there is a geopolitical tension with Egypt from Antiquity that unfortunately some Jewish people have carried through history even when it was completely irrelevant, so in trying to research interactions between "ancient" Egyptian Jews and Native Egyptians (from the Ptolemaic era into the proto-Coptic and fully Coptic eras) I've unfortunately come across stuff that for me, as an Egyptian, reads like anti miscegenationist ideology, and it is difficult to tell whether this is a view of history being pushed on the past or not. The phrase "Erev Rav" (meaning mixed multitude), which in part refers to Egyptians who left Egypt with Moses and converted to Judaism, is even used as an insult by some.

Since I mentioned that documentary, I'll start by going over more modern sources. Mapping Jewish San Francisco has a playlist of videos of interviews with Egyptian Jews, including both Karaites and Rabbinic Jews iirc (I reblogged some of these awhile ago in my "actually Egyptian tag" tag). This book, the Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry, is avaliable for free online, it promises to be a more indepth look at Egyptian Jews in the lead up to modern explusion. I have only read a few sections of it, so I cannot give a full judgment on it. There's this video I watched about preserving Karaite historical sites in Egypt that I remember being interesting. "On the Mediterranian and the Nile edited by Harvey E. Goldman and Matthis Lehmann" is a collection of memiors iirc, as is "the Man in the Sharkskin Suit" (which I've started but not completed), both moreso from a Rabbinic perspective. Karaites also have a few websites discussing themselves in their terms, such as this one.

For the pre-modern but post-Islamic era, the Cairo Geniza is a great resource but in my opinion as a hobby researcher, hard to navigate. It is a large cache of documents from a Cairo synagogue mostly from around the Fatimid era. A significant portion of it is digitized and they occasionally crowd source translation help on their Twitter, and a lot of books and papers use it as a primary source. "The Jews in Medieval Egypt, edited by: Miriam Frenkel" is one in my to read pile. "Benjamin H. Hary - Multiglossia in Judeio-Arabic. With an Edition, Translation, and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll" is a paper I've read discussing the Jewish record of the events commemorated by the Cairo Purim, I got it off either Anna's Archive or libgen. "Mamluks of Jewish Origin in the Mamluk Sultanate by Koby Yosef" is a paper in my to read pile. "Jewish pietism of the Sufi type A particular trend of mysticisme in Medieval Egypt by Mireille Loubet" and "Paul B Fenton- Judaism and Sufism" both discuss the medieval Egyptian Jewish pietist movement.

For "ancient" Egyptian Jews, I find the first chapter of "The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD” by Simon Schama, which covers Elephantine, very interesting (it also flies in the face of claims that Jews did not marry Native Egyptians, though it is from centuries before the era researchers often cover). If you'd like to read don't click this link to a Google doc, that would be VERY naughty. There's very little on the Therapeutae, but for the paper theorizing they may have been influenced by Buddhism (possibly making them an example of Judeo-Buddhist syncretism) look here (their Wikipedia page also has some sources that could be interesting but are not specifically about them). "Taylor, Joan E. - Jewish women philosophers of first-century Alexandria: Philo’s Therapeutae reconsidered" is also a to read.

I haven't found much on the temple of Onias/Tell el Yahudia/Leontopolis in depth, but I have the paper "Meron M. Piotrkowski - Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period" in my to be read pile (which I got off Anna's Archive). I also have some supplemental info from a lecture I attended that I'm willing to privately share.

I also have a document compiling links about the Exodus of Jews from Egypt in the modern era, but I'm cautious about sharing it now because I made it in high school and I've realized it needs better fact checking, because it had some misinfo in it from Zionist publications (specifically about the names of Nazis who fled to Egypt- that did happen, but a bunch of names I saw reported had no evidence of that being the case, and one name was the name of a murdered resistance fighter???)

#cipher talk #I find Leontopolis fascinating because after the first time a bunch of Egyptian Jews built a temple in Egypt a second guy did it #And allegedly had a not terrible scriptural justification! And the temple lasted for THREE EXTRA YEARS after Jerusalem was sacked! #Never let anyone tell you there was only one temple #There's also other stuff but this is what I immediately had #Some books I have I'm pretty sure just aren't good to start with lmao they're about very specific stuff #Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity politics and culture is interesting and includes Egyptian Jews #But it's definitely got a zionist bias. It's mostly essays #I'd definitely recommend reading up on Joseph Cattaui and Murād Farag because they were simply so influential #Even though Farag was a dumbass that wrote the first Arabic defense of Zionism #Ya‘qub Sannu‘ is also fascinating- he spent a lot of his time defending Muslims to European audiences so some people assumed he reverted #He didn't he just took a hard stance on it. Also he got exiled for criticizing the Khedivate #All 3 are in MMEJT iirc

[thelastspeecher]

watching the Ancient Aliens episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved and pausing every two minutes to rant once they get to the Pyramids of Giza part bc I was one of those Egyptology kids and I will NOT stand for this fucking SLANDER

#''oh how did they align the pyramids with Orion's belt?'' THEY LOOKED AT THE SKY #navigation via stars was SO crucial in desert areas they were HUGE stargazers #I mean there's a reason a lot of stars have Arabic names #bc Arabic people named them using them to navigate #''how are they so well-preserved?'' it's a fucking DESERT #''they align with magnetic north'' MAGNETS EXIST IN NATURE #''the shapes are perfect'' MATH IS MATH. GEOMETRY IS GEOMETRY. #btw the first two ''examples'' in the video are also bullshit #but they aren't on a subject I read extensively about as a smol #and also Ryan didn't disrespect those cultures quite as much as the Ancient Egyptians #so I didn't have quite as strong reactions to it #anyways Shane is so based in that episode and Ryan is the wrongest he's ever been #the roommate and I kept ranting about how Wrong Ryan is being #Ghoul Boys #Buzzfeed Unsolved #speecher speaks

[anakinsafterlife]

So the tutor in my Egyptian Arabic lesson today was sharing a belly-dancing video. The dancing is great, yet hilarious, because here is this stunningly gorgeous girl dancing her ass off for this extremely average looking guy. The incongruity is so obvious and laughable. And like, yes, obviously very good looking women can be attracted to average looking men. No one is disbuting that, but this is very obviously a fantasy situation arranged for male viewing pleasure. Still it's a fun video!

#egypt #belly-dancing #music #arabic #egyptian arabic #gender politics #Youtube

[fag4arabs]

This is your place fag! Always lower than Arab Kings. Look at their power. These Kings are real men! And they own you know. They own your holes. Lower your eyes in front of their superiority. Make sure their balls are always empty. Keep them satisfied, whore

#morocco #moroccan #algeria #algerian #libya #egypt #egyptian #middleeasternmen #middle east #arab supremacy #kuwait #iraq #saudi arabia #muslim supremacy #arab master #arab superiority #mnwo #muslim superiority #maître rebeu #rebeu #rebeu gay #rebeux #on your knees