Glossary entry

Arabic term or phrase:

ود الريس

English translation:

the chief's son

Added to glossary by AhmedAMS
Mar 26, 2007 19:07
17 yrs ago
Arabic term

ود الريس

Arabic to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
The context: different people ask the narrator different questions and the key sentence goes like that:

وسألني ود الريس هل صحيح أنهم لا يتزوجون ولكن الرجل منهم يعيش مع المرأة بالحرام؟

taken from موسم الهجرة الى الشمال by الطيب صالح

Thank you!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 the chief's son
Change log

Mar 26, 2007 20:49: AhmedAMS changed "Field" from "Other" to "Art/Literary" , "Field (specific)" from "Folklore" to "Poetry & Literature"

Proposed translations

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12 mins
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the chief's son

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Peer comment(s):

agree Lamis Maalouf : I wanted to say that, but preferred to leave it to Egyptian colleagues :-) Sudanese? OK, Egyptians are the closest neighbors. Close in dialect sir even if they live in Russia :-)
13 mins
Thank you very much but the author is Sudanese, not Egyptian.>>> Right, Egyptians and Russians are the closest neighbors.
agree Nesrin : Yes, that's Sudanese dialect :-)
21 mins
Thank you very much.
agree Amir Kamel
10 hrs
Thank you very much.
agree Stephen Franke : Sudanese dialect - tamaam wa nuS. FWIW, that dialect is common in the Khartoum capital metro area, including Omdurman, Jazeerat Tuti, al-Khartoum al-Bahri, and up toward Wad Saidnaa. Different dialects heard in the south and west.
2 days 12 hrs
Thank you very much.
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