جيبة
Egyptian Arabic edit
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
جيبة • (žība) f (plural جيبات (žibāt))
- skirt
- Synonyms: جيب (žīb), جونلة (gunilla), (obsolete) تنورة (tannūra)
- هو إيه الموضة اللي طالعة الايام دي أي حتة قماشة يحطولها أستك ويبقى اسمها جيبة حتى لو قماش ملاية سرير؟
- huwwa ʾēh il-mōḍa ʾilli ṭalʿa l-ʾayyām di ʾayy ḥittit ʾumāš yiḥuṭṭulha ʾastik wi-yibʾa ʾismaha žība ḥatta law ʾumāš milāyit sirīr?
- What's with the fashion that's coming out these days, they put a rubber band on any piece of fabric and it is now called a skirt even if it's a bedsheet fabric?
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References edit
- Spiro, Socrates (1895). An Arabic-English vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt, containing the vernacular idioms and expressions, slang phrases, etc., etc., used by the native Egyptians Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office.
- Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986). A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
South Levantine Arabic edit
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ج ي ب |
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Alternative forms edit
- جيب (jēb)