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

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jackknifed adj. They can document their experiences with digital cameras, widely sold at the PX (Post Exchange), call home using cell phones and phone cards through a tent and satellite system set up by AT&T (for jackknifed rates). [Arabic English Iraq Military] [full cite] (Dec. 2, 2004)

jundi n. The Iraqi soldiers—known to the Marines as jundis, an Arabic term for low-level soldier—may be ready for independent patrol. [ Language Arabic Place Iraq Subject Military] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2005)

kul shee maku n. “It’s always kul shee maku ,” said Sgt. Rob Hammer, a 32-year-old squad leader from Sublette, Kan., reciting the Arabic phrase for “there is nothing,” which the entire platoon has memorized. [Arabic Iraq] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2005)

muj n. The “muj” have three things they know and there are four things that seperate them from the heathen: 1) they are Agfhani 2) they are Muslims 3) they are from here, 4) the Russians (Or Brits, or whomever) are none of the above. [Arabic English Military] [full cite] (Jan. 14, 2005)

muj n. India should accept the Pakistan no war pact . Much of the army can then be removed from the Rajasthan and Punjab borders and sent to the valley to finish off the Muj once and for all . [Arabic Military] [full cite] (Jan. 14, 2005)

muj n. A Canadian film-maker’s neatly pressed grey flannels and tweed jacket contrast with his week’s rough growth of beard. “I’m going in a few days,” he says, rubbing the beard. “Do you think I look like a Muj?” [Arabic Military] [full cite] (Jan. 14, 2005)

muj n. A parade of well-tailored “Gucci muj,” as the CIA Near East officers derisively called them, began to fly in from Pakistan and march from office to office in Washington. [Arabic Military] [full cite] (Jan. 14, 2005)

shakhidka n. You won’t find it in any Russian dictionary, but a single word dominates newspaper headlines and conversations in the street after two weeks of bombings and mayhem: shakhidka, or female Islamist suicide bomber. A mix of the Arabic word shaheed (martyr) and the Russian female suffix “ka,” a literal translation might be female martyr. [Arabic Russian Russia Military] [full cite] (Sep. 8, 2004)

shako mako other. Another man holds up a small mirror and yells the Iraqi slang phrase “Shako mako? (what’s up?)” as he hops inside a locked ward. [Arabic Iraq] [full cite] (Jun. 22, 2004)

sukuk el-tamwil n. Egyptian civil law limits the interest on a conventional bond to 7 per cent. This would hardly attract investors, with inflation running at over 30 per cent. However, Law 146 allows for the issue of sukuk el-tamwil, instruments similar to bonds, on which there is theoretically no restriction as regards the return offered. [Arabic Money & Finance] [full cite] (Feb. 22, 2006)

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