Arabic Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Haji Mart n. Outside the base, soldiers freely shopped at a marketplace set up by Iraqis (derisively called “Haji Marts” by soldiers) that sold everything from alcohol to bootleg DVDs to bayonets. [Arabic English Iraq Military] [full cite] (Dec. 2, 2004)

haji mart n. “We should just clear out all these haji marts,” one said. “Bring in a bulldozer.” [Arabic English Iraq Military] [full cite] (Dec. 2, 2004)

Haji Mart n. After the bomb was found last week in the restaurant, the U.S. Embassy issued a security advisory to Green Zone residents, urging them to avoid the restaurant and the bazaar, known in the compound as Haji Mart. [Arabic English Iraq Military] [full cite] (Dec. 2, 2004)

hawala n. Generally, a Hawala is a system of brokers that provide a paperless banking system enabling individuals to transfer large sums of cash from one country to recipients in another country without the funds ever crossing borders or being recorded. [Arabic English Money & Finance] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2005)

hawasim n. I said “do you have a car?!” he said “yes, doctor,” at once I concluded that he was a thief (in slang known as Hawasim, a name derived from Saddam’s description to the coming war at that time as Al-hawasim which means The Decisive War, after the end of the war, everyone whom seen in the loot and robbery is called ‘Hawasim’ !!). [Arabic Iraq Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2004)

hawasim n. According to residents of the area, hundreds of tanks have been purchased from civilians, Al-Hawasim gangs [a term used by Iraqis to refer to the thieves well-nourished during and after the last war, which was named Al-Hawasim by the former regime], or the foreign forces. [Arabic Iraq Crime & Prisons Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 17, 2004)

hawasim n. Saddam had called this war the Harb Al Hawasim, the Final War, and Iraqis immediately renamed looted goods in Iraq Hawasim. [Arabic Iraq Crime & Prisons Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 17, 2004)

hawasim n. Some of his customers, he said, are hawasim, looters who took part in the rampant plundering of government buildings, banks, Iraqi army bases and businesses after the war. [Arabic Iraq Crime & Prisons Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 17, 2004)

hudna n. He is still negotiating, in the midst of negotiations with different parties to secure a cease-fire or a hudna, as they call it in Arabic, between the different factions. [Arabic Military] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2005)

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