Author: Socrates Spiro

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-04

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9781334168383

Excerpt from An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt: Containing the Vernacular Idioms and Expressions, Slang Phrases, Etc., Etc., Used by Native Egyptians But it was not until 1891 that he began to collect his materials. His plan at first was to compile a simple book of some two hundred pages, but as the work progressed he found that it was gradually growing larger until at last its size as originally contemplated was greatly increased. Finding this to be the case, the compiler decided to give the book a wider scope, and for this purpose he introduced a large number of administrative, financial, engineering, mechanical and military words which he met with in his perusal of a mass of official publications. The idioms and the slang phrases were obtained not only by reading almost all the literature of which colloquial Arabic can boast, but by listening and carefully noting casual words and trivial phrases as they were used in common conversation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.