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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Advanced Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 15 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The seventh day

Layla's seventh-day party at the Mansours': put her in the sieve gently, the salt and the stepping over, listen to your mother's words and not your father's, bang the mortar, may she grow up in your prosperity, may God keep her and may she be a doctor, an architect like her father, and a bride.

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THE STORY

The seventh-day party at the Mansours' flat in Heliopolis, a Friday in April: the sieve, the salt, the candles and the mortar. Grandma runs it and speaks plainly to everyone; Salma and Leo speak plainly to each other, and Leo says the polite you to Grandma.

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حُطِّيهَا فِي المُنْخُل, بِالرَّاحَة.7ut-TEE-ha fi il-MUN-khul bir-RAA-7a.Put her in the sieve, gently.
المَلْح يَا تِيتَة, وَأَنَا بَاخَطِّي.il-MAL7 ya TEE-ta wa-A-na ba-KHAT-ti.The salt, Grandma, and I'm stepping over.
مَتِسْمَعِيش كَلَام بَابَا.ma-tis-ma-3EESH ka-LAAM BAA-badon't listen to your father's words, to a girl
اِسْمَعِي كَلَام مَامَا, مَتِسْمَعِيش كَلَام بَابَا.is-MA-3i ka-LAAM MAA-ma ma-tis-ma-3EESH ka-LAAM BAA-ba.Listen to your mother's words, don't listen to your father's words.
لِيه مِش كَلَام بَابَا?leeh mish ka-LAAM BAA-ba?Why not the father's words?
الأُغْنِيَّة كِدَه, دُقّ الهُون يَا لِيُو.il-'ugh-NIY-ya KI-da du'' il-HOON ya LI-yu.That's the song, bang the mortar, Leo.
الشَّمْع يَا لِيُو, وَلَّعْهُم.ish-SHAM3 ya LI-yu wal-LA3-hum.The candles, Leo, light them.
تِتْرَبَّى فِي عِزُّكُم, قُولْهَا يَا لِيُو.tit-RAB-ba fi 3iz-ZU-kum 'OL-ha ya LI-yu.May she grow up in your prosperity, say it, Leo.
رَبِّنَا يِخَلِّيهَا, وِتِكْبَر وِتِبْقَى دُكْتُورَة.rab-BI-na yi-khal-LEE-ha wi-TIK-bar wi-TIB-'a duk-TOO-ra.May God keep her, may she grow up and be a doctor.
مُهَنْدِسَة زَيّ أَبُوهَا, وِعَرُوسَة.mu-han-DI-sa zayy a-BOO-ha wi-3a-ROO-sa.An architect like her father, and a bride.