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SpaceWeavil
Joined: 27 May 2004
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 Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: Help required for a couple of translations |
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Hi all,
This is actually for an original fantasy fic, but I was wondering if anyone out there speaks Arabic at all, and could possibly give me a translation for something like 'the cockroaches' or 'the beetles' but transliterated into English script?
Basically it's a nickname given to a heretical pagan sect I have in a fictitious, formally Persian now converted to Islam, country, and though I've been able to track down words in the dictionaries and books I have at home, I don't read Arabic script well enough to trust my own transliterations.
If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.
SW
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Haleth
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I don't know but I work with several people who speak Arabic. I'll ask them tomorrow.
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Rhapsody
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:38 am Post subject: |
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I know someone who's from Lebanon.. shall I re-direct her to here?
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DragonEyes
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: |
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well, my first tongue is Arabic and I'm more than happy to do it  I'm Rhapsy's friend from Lebanon. Please feel free to e-mail me or pm me or IM  |
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