جيبة

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Egyptian Arabic

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Etymology

From French jupe (skirt).

Pronunciation

Noun

جيبة (žībaf (plural جيبات (žibāt))

  1. skirt
    هو إيه الموضة اللي طالعة الايام دي أي حتة قماشة يحطولها أستك ويبقى اسمها جيبة حتى لو قماش ملاية سرير؟
    húwwa ʾēh ʾil-mōḍa ʾílli ṭálʿa ʾil-ʾáyyām di ʾayy ḥittit ʾúmāš yíḥuṭṭu-lha ʾástik wi-yíbʾa ʾism-aha žība ḥátta law ʾúmāš mílāyit sírīr?
    What's with the fashion that's coming out these days, they put a rubberband on any piece of fabric and it is now called a skirt even if it's a bedsheet fabric?

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References

  • Spiro, Socrates (1895). An Arabic-English vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt, containing the vernacular idioms and expressions, slang phrases, etc., etc., used by the native Egyptians Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office.
  • Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986). A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic Beirut: Librairie du Liban.