Talk:fatah
Latest comment: 11 years ago by -sche in topic RFV discussion: September–December 2012
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English noun meaning "conquest"? —RuakhTALK 02:30, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
- Fatah is the name for some sort of Arabic descendant rebel group, and the quote doesn't make good sense as that, "...decimated in the fatah." It's a Lybian ethnicity or other sort of grouping, and also a given name [1]. RTG (talk) 12:01, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
- All the hits in your Google-search seem to be referring to Fatah, a Palestinian political party (or military-political party). This RFV is about lowercase fatah. —RuakhTALK 12:13, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
- Apologise, I overlooked the etymology there. I'd probably only echo your own thoughts if I said given the Arabic context, there is nothing to suggest it wasn't used as intended (by Obama) but as an Arabic word purposely in an English language sentence. Sorry about that. RTG (talk) 17:58, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 16:46, 1 December 2012 (UTC)