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What is your name?

Levantine Arabic Dialects

English translation:

Hi, my name is Wafaa.

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What are your names? (P.)

English translation:

Hello, my name is Zeina.
Hello, my name is Zeina.

English translation:

What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (M.S.)
What are your names? (P.)

English translation:

My name is Naheel.
My name is Ahmad.

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)

English translation:

Hi, my name is Linda.

Egyptian Arabic Dialects

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (P.)

English translation:

My name is Ahmed.
My name is Maryam.

North African Arabic Dialects

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (P.)

English translation:

My name is Ahmed.
My name is Maryam.

English translation:

Hi my name is Elabed.

English translation:

Hi my name is Boushra.
Hi my name is Boushra.
I'm Boushra.

English translation:

What is your name? (S.)
What are your names? (P.)

English translation:

My name is Sondes. (S.)
Our names are Senia, Sondes and Anne-Laure. (P.)

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (P.)

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (P.)

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name?(P.)

English translation:

My name is Khadijatou.
My name is Khadijatou.
My name is Khadijatou.

Other Dialects

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (P.)

English translation:

My name is Ahmed.
My name is Maryam.

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (P.)

English translation:

My name is Ahmed.
My name is Maryam.

English translation:

What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (P.)
What is your name? (M.S.)
What is your name? (F.S.)
What is your name? (P.)

English translation:

May I know [your name]?

English translation:

May I know your name? (formal) What is your name? (formal)

English translation:

I'm Mahoud.
I'm Fatima.
My name is Mahmoud.
My name is Fatima