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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Advanced Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The four-part name

At the health office in Heliopolis the clerk fills in the birth notification: the father's name, the four-part name, two names only, your father's and the grandfather's, my father is Tom and the family name, the mother's name, the father's nationality, place and date of birth, the child Layla Leo Mitchell.

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THE STORY

The health office of Heliopolis, a counter and a form, a few days after the birth. Leo and the clerk say the polite you to each other and Leo calls him sir; Karim has come along and speaks plainly.

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اِسْم الأَب.ism il-ABthe father's name: name, then the father, side by side
اِسْم الأَب, الاِسْم الرُّبَاعِي.ism il-AB, il-ISM ir-ru-BAA-3i.The father's name, the four-part name.
لِيُو مِيتْشِل, اِسْمَيْن بَسّ.LI-yu MIT-shil, is-MEEN bass.Leo Mitchell, two names only.
وِاسْم أَبُو حَضْرِتَك?wism A-bu 7ad-RI-tak?And your father's name?
أَبُويَا تُوم, وِمِيتْشِل اِسْم العِيلَة.a-BOO-ya toom, wi-MIT-shil ism il-3EE-la.My father is Tom, and Mitchell is the family name.
اِسْم الأُمّ, سَلْمَى مَحْمُود مَنْصُور.ism il-UMM, SAL-ma ma7-MOOD man-SOOR.The mother's name, Salma Mahmoud Mansour.
مَحَلّ المِيلَاد, مَصْر الجِدِيدَة.ma-7ALL il-mi-LAAD, masr ig-gi-DEE-da.Place of birth, Heliopolis.
جِنْسِيَّة الأَب, أَمْرِيكِي.gin-SIY-ya il-AB, am-REE-ki.The father's nationality, American.
تَارِيخ المِيلَاد, اِتْنَاشَر أَبْرِيل.ta-REEKH il-mi-LAAD, it-NAA-shar ab-REEL.Date of birth, the twelfth of April.
الطِّفْلَة, لَيْلَى لِيُو مِيتْشِل.it-TIF-la, LAY-la LI-yu MIT-shil.The child, Layla Leo Mitchell.