Re: E D S for Abdulaziz

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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Salam,

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 09:28, Munzir Taha wrote:
> On Sunday 11 April 2004 06:20 pm, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote:
> > --- Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de> wrote:

> > though. For one, I had
> > translated "nickname" as "laqab" but you saw fit to
> > change it to "kinyah".
>
> I strongly disagree with kinyah in favor of laqab. ln Arabic, lagab means
> any alias name which is exactly corresponds to nickname, but `kunyah' is a
> special type of names that begin with `Abu' or `Umm' like Abu Abdulrahman
> or Umm Abdulrahman. So, nickname _should_ be translated to lagab.

Actually I like كنية ;-) Laqab now means more and more 'Family Name' which can 
create a confusion. Yeah, I know that originally it meant 'Nickname', but 
keep in mind that the language evolves.

My 2c (I'll keep the arguing for QAC :-).

Salam,

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Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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