I just made a huge :afsah and now I have a handful of minutes to start at-tanDHiif before my friend comes back.
Of course I didn't make this particular :afsah in the privacy of bayt-ii. Nor did it involve anything of mine - which would have been annoying but forgivable.
Of course I didn't make this particular :afsah in the privacy of bayt-ii. Nor did it involve anything of mine - which would have been annoying but forgivable.
No, I am in a daar al-nawm
of a friend looking at the remains of her 21st birthday present in fragments
on the floor.
I must have been :amyah not
to have seen how precariously balanced the bottle of Baccarat was on the
corner of her bedside table.
Nor how, just beneath the
table was her family photo album of black and white portraits from the early
20th century. She had told me how precious it was. I must have been
Samkhah when she said it or just plain ghabiiyah to not have remembered until now.
“fii shay?” asks a voice at
the doorway and my heart sinks. I turn back. My friend is sniffing the air,
looking puzzled. Then she sees the :afsah and my beetroot face.
“Shall nsani: together?” she asks.
“Shall nsani: together?” she asks.
| Verb |
اسنع
|
asani: | I clean |
تسنع
|
tsani: | You clean (m) | |
تسنعين
|
tsan:iin | You clean (f) | |
تسنعون
|
tsan:uun | You clean (pl) | |
نسنع
|
nsani: | We clean | |
يسنع
|
ysani: | He cleans | |
تسنع
|
tsani: | She cleans | |
يسنعون
|
ysani:uun | They clean | |
| عمي | :amay | Blind (m) | |
| Adjectives | عمية | :amyah | Blind (f) |
| اعميا | a:miyaa | Blind (pl) | |
صمخة
|
Samakhah | Deaf (f) | |
| التنظيف | at-tanDHiif | The cleaning | |
| Nouns | دار النوم | daar al-nawm | A bedroom |
| بيت | bayt-ii | My house | |
| Phrase |
في شي
|
fii shay? | What's wrong? |
