On 7/28/2017 12:16 AM, Jesse Manoogian wrote:
>I would figure that out, but I highly doubt that would be the real term.
>Maybe *mIn laH tI'wI'* or something similar.

"mIn laH" is a GREAT construction! I was puzzling over how to say sight/vision (all I could find was the verb "to sight" "puS" in this war-heavy-vocabulary language).> tank top: be'nalmoqwI' (a calque of the English wifebeater)

I meant mIn laH as in the physical capabilities of your eyes. I would translate ability to see as leghlaHghach.


>> guitar: javHurDagh (six + stringed instrument)
>
>I wouldn't get it. If you don't want to approximate by just saying
>*HurDagh,* be explicit and say *jav SIrgh ghajbogh HurDagh.* Or use a
>foreign term and say /guitar./

Or "ghI'tar".

Don't transliterate unless you make it very clear to your audience that you are transliterating. Otherwise you're going to send people running to their dictionaries, trying to figure out what a ghI'tar is, or is it maybe a combination of ghI' plus tar?

It's better to just use foreign terms as foreign terms, and not to try to jam them into the native language. It gives them a certain je ne sais quoi.


Could "nenbogh nuv" mean the noun "adult"?

Yes.

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