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(iṯṛā(t) or iṯrīt

18:49 May 29, 2017
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English to Arabic translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: (iṯṛā(t) or iṯrīt
Henkin (2010: 134, 141) notes four variants in Negev Arabic (iṯṛā(t), iṯrīt, ṯarīt and aṯariy). These forms are quite divergent and some show etymological kinship with the lexeme -ṯ-r ‘footsteps, tracks’. The author considers that such particles are presentatives, like arˤ and hay ‘look here’, and that her second subcategory of particles are ‘presentatives of conversational discourse’.
iṯṛāt, iṯrīt and ṯarīt are ‘evidential presentatives’ which appear both in spontaneous discourse and in storytelling. At times Henkin translates them by ‘apparently’, at others by ‘it turns out that’ because, based on evidentiality, she perceives a combination of several modal concepts:
(i) noncommitment to the information, which is secondhand knowledge
(ii) findings contrary to expectations

tāri aḥmad msāfer
tāri ahmad travel.
‘I learnt that [contrary to what I thought] Ahmed is gone’.
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4أرأيت
Ahmed Shalabi


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(iṯṛā(t), iṯrīt, ṯarīt and aṯariy)
أرأيت


Explanation:
في الأغلب أنه يضرب مثلا بكلمة "أرأيت"

Ahmed Shalabi
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 38
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