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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

El Mustapha Lahlali
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Tajul Islam
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Summary

Curable disease

To do s.th. consistently

Orphanage

Mint

The hereafter

Court of justice, tribunal

Library

Medina

The whole house

War broke out

To suffer adversities

An Islamic preacher

A peace activist

To defend one’s opinion

To defend someone

To defend his interest

A powerful incentive

Encyclopedia

Electoral district

An official authority

Doubt crept into him

The enemy tanks

To write a poem

To arrange matters

To conduct the course of business

To hatch a plot

To hatch a plot

Sound of footsteps

To arm s.o. to the teeth

Monthly income

To involve oneself in the war

To enter a new world

To come to the point

To belong to, to fall under

To belong to the past, be no longer existent

To become effective, come into force

Steady income

Low income

He entered through the gates

Prayer time has started

Free admission

Foreigner, outsider

A drama taken from real life

Melting point

Freezing point

University degree

Centigrade (thermometer)

To conspire

To slip s.o. poison

To inaugurate a university

Desist! Stop!

Not to speak of, let alone . . .

To advocate for Islam

To call for peace

He called him to account

To be run over by a car

Stop that! Cut it out!

A government subsidy

Financial support

Let’s not talk about it! Enough of that!

Let’s go!

Let me alone!

Military proceedings

Civil proceedings, civil action, civil suit

Air defence

Self-defence

Defending one’s interest

Defence of the faith

Defence of the country

The defence of Egyptian territory

To pay wages

To pay the bill

Payment in instalment

To race along, dash along

To pay for one’s crime

Advance payment

A step in the right direction

All at once

Formal plea

To clap one’s hands

The niceties

Sensitivity, sensibility

Sensitive

Finely worked

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A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions
Arabic-English Translation
, pp. 121 - 125
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • El Mustapha Lahlali, University of Leeds, Tajul Islam, University of Leeds
  • Book: A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions
  • Online publication: 13 March 2025
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