Sample Comparisons of Dialects
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Arabic Dialect Sample Comparisons: Important Occasions
Hajj
Levantine Dialects | Listen | English Meaning |
Jordanian | listen | May [your] Hajj be accepted! Response: May you be next! (M.S.) Response: May you be next! (F.S.) Response: May you be next! (P.) |
Palestinian | listen | Congratulations on your Hajj! Response: May you be next! (F.S.) Congratulations on your Hajj! Response: God willing you will be next! (M.S.) |
North African Dialects | Listen | English Meaning |
Libyan | listen | May your Hajj be accepted and sins forgiven. Response: And the same to you. (M.S.) May your Hajj be accepted and sins forgiven. Response: And the same to you. (F.S.) May your Hajj be accepted and sins forgiven. Response: And the same to you. (M.P.) May your Hajj be accepted and sins forgiven. Response: And the same to you. (F.P.) |
Moroccan | listen | Congratulations on the safe [return] of the haj (the one returning from Hajj). (M.S.) Response: May God grant you peace (M.S.) Congratulations on the safe [return] of the haja (the one returning from Hajj). (F.S.) Response: May God grant you peace (F.S.) Congratulations on the safe [return] of the hujaj (the ones returning from Hajj). (P.) Response: May God grant you peace (P.) |
Tunisian | listen | Blessed Hajj. Response: Thank you, may you be next. (S.) Blessed Hajj. Response: Thank you, may you be next. (P.) |
Western Saharan & Mauritanian | listen | May your Hajj be accepted. Response: From us from you. (M.S.) May your Hajj be accepted. Response: From us from you. (F.S.) May your Hajj be accepted. Response: From us from you. (P.) |
Other Major Dialects | Listen | English Meaning |
Yemeni | listen | May your Hajj be accepted! |
Yemeni | listen | May Allah accept [the Hajj] from you! |
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