Tuesday, July 10th, 2007...8:48 am

Calling All Arabs Out There!

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What’s up? I was hoping that there might be people out there who wouldn’t mind helping me out! I have an English word that I want to write in Arabic!

The English word : Margaritaville

I have 4 ways of writing it and they are :

مارغاريتافيل

مارجاريتافيل

The other 2 variations of the word are identical to those listed about except the ف has 3 dots on top and not just 1

What do you think? How would you spell it?

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16 Comments

  • EniGma
    July 10th, 2007 at 9:59 am

    i wouldn’t even translate it. i’d just say عالم المارغاريتاor something cos these letter 2 letter translations piss me off

  • The Stallion
    July 10th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

    EniGma : Thanks for your input but the thing is I can’t use your translation! Why? What you wrote down is 2 words that translate into World of The Margarita or Margarita World! I am not looking for that! I just want the literal translation of Margaritaville!

  • shurouq
    July 10th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    Egyptians would use the ج, Syrian, the غ
    or is it the other way round? :/ madri

    I’d go with your first spelling
    مارغاريتافيل

    and please don’t do the three dots thing.. It’s not a proper Arabic letter.

    Ba3ad.. shlonek?

  • The Stallion
    July 10th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    Shurouq : Halla walla! Nice of you to grace my blog! I’m doing fine thanks! You? As for the translation, I didn’t really want to use the 3 dots but it was mentioned by coworkers! Thanks for your input!

  • Я
    July 10th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Bro..
    If you want a technical explanation, here it goes!

    The ‘g’ in Margaritaville is pronounced like in ‘good’ or ‘great’ (emphasis on the g). So usually that’s translated in official Arabic to ج .

    And I agree with Shurouq, not proper arabic for the 3 dots. :P

    Oh and hi! ;)

  • The Stallion
    July 10th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Я : Thanks for the reasoning! I’ll keep that in mind! :P

  • EniGma
    July 10th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    well if u had to choose one of these 2 then مارغاريتافيل looks better cuz then ppl will read it marjaritaville ;p

  • Deema
    July 10th, 2007 at 8:03 pm

    i did a search in google to check which is more common to say, sawait test 3ala margret tatcher i found that مارغريت
    is used more than the one with ج in difference of 13,000 name
    so i think the best translation is:
    مارغريتافيل
    i don’t think that you should use the (ا) after il’3ain you don’t clearly say it..

  • The Stallion
    July 10th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

    EniGma : Gotcha!

    Deema : Thanks for the research and the info! I’ll take your suggestion into consideration!

  • Cuteberry
    July 10th, 2007 at 11:51 pm

    I read this post and all I hear in my head is “why? why would you need to translate Maragitaville? ” :P

    Printing out invitations? Hope mine is not lost bel mail *giggles*

  • iDip
    July 11th, 2007 at 1:47 am

    apparently, your spelling “dillema” concerns 2 letters
    V & G

    I second what Shurouq said regarding the use of a three dotted ف

    as for the “G”
    there is a third infrequent way to arabicize it
    by using the letter ك
    to simulate the persian letter گ - Gaf (with a swash on top)
    so the result will be
    مارگاريتافيل

    just like
    كراج
    &
    گراج
    more:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perso-Arabic_script

  • The Stallion
    July 11th, 2007 at 6:07 am

    Cuteberry : You’ll find out soon enough!

    iDip : WoW! I never thought of that! Good point!

  • EniGma
    July 11th, 2007 at 11:02 am

    actually the 3 dotted ف is also persian

  • The Stallion
    July 11th, 2007 at 11:24 am

    EniGma : Don’t worry about that anymore! Not going to use it! ;)

  • Deema
    July 12th, 2007 at 2:06 am

    iDip is absolutely right, i was thinking of telling you that but i don’t know how to explain it neither how to find this kind of kaf illy fog’ha sha56a.

    bas ahagaak bassik mn halslfa mo?

  • The Stallion
    July 12th, 2007 at 5:19 am

    Deema : We’ll see what happens!

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