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Arabic Lyrics Help Wed Jun 18, 2008 23:03 pm  Arabic Lyrics Help
 

I've got an Amr Diab CD (Egyptian pop star), and I've gotten used to hearing a few words/phrases... like:

ya

la (lah)

sadekny khalas

ya habiby la

habiby

ahabek

baed ellayaly

wala ala baloh

aktar wahed

wala

etc.

Is there an Arabic speaker here who can fill me in on these words/phrases?

Thanks so much,

Tom
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Arabic Lyrics Help Fri Jun 20, 2008 15:51 pm  Arabic Lyrics Help
 

Hey, Tom. What's with the Arabic music? Did some Arab girl tickle your fancy lately? Very Happy

By the way, I think "Ya Lah" is the short form of "Ya Allah" (Oh God) and I know "Ya habibi" means "my lover".

Oh, good luck with your pursuit! Very Happy
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Arabic Lyrics Help Fri Jun 20, 2008 18:17 pm  Arabic Lyrics Help
 

Nina, thanks -- my sister taught in Cairo for a year. The CD was a souvenir.
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Arabic Lyrics Help Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:30 am  Arabic Lyrics Help
 

Tom,

Did you listen to Khaled's Didi. It was a big hit some 15 years ago.

BTW, what do you mean by "Billie Jean is not my lover"?
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Arabic Lyrics Help Sun Jun 22, 2008 0:08 am  Arabic Lyrics Help
 

I haven't knowingly listened to/heard Khaled's Didi.
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"Billie Jean is not my lover" is a line from Michael Jackson's early-'80s hit song "Billie Jean".

He seems pretty weird (if not dangerous) now, but back in the '80s he was the shiznit, with mega-huge multi-platinum albums Thriller and Bad.

In third grade, my favorite album was "Thriller". It was comprised of tunes like:

Thriller
Billie Jean
Beat It
The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney)
PYT
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Human Nature

(all top-10 hits)

It could be argued that Thriller was one of the top five popular albums of the 1980s, and that Bad was one of the top 20 or so.

Here's the Wiki link to the Thriller album page. On this site there are also links to the hit songs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_%28album%29
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