Oct 15, 2007 19:49
17 yrs ago
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عربي term

الاستظراف

عربي إلى أنجليزي الفن/الأدب السينما، الأفلام، التلفزيون، الدراما cinema
الاستظراف فى المسلسلات الكوميدية

Discussion

Sajjad Hamadani Oct 18, 2007:
Do you mean when a boring person tells a joke that falls flat and no one laughs
Assem Mazloum Oct 17, 2007:
antipathetic
- unbearable - unpleasant - a bore
Dina 13 (asker) Oct 17, 2007:
What I mean is when someone is trying to be funny but isn't managing to make anyone laugh...
meaning الدم الثقيل

"a dull sense of humor!!"
Mona Elsaid Oct 16, 2007:
is there any answer for Ahmed Wadan's question?
this would make a difference. thanks
ahmadwadan.com Oct 15, 2007:

كلمة الاستظراف في الغالب لها مدلول سلبي وهو وجود شخص أو مجموعة بتستظرف لكنها في الواقع ليست ظريفة أو بايخة فهل هذا هو المعنى المقصود؟
ستختلف الترجمة وفقا للمعنى المراد

Proposed translations

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3 دقائق
Selected

acting funnily/funny

It might have a negative implication.
Peer comment(s):

agree Saleh Ayyub
7 دقائق
agree Sahar Moussly
25 دقائق
agree Samya Salem (X)
2 ساعات
agree Mustafa Fadhel : ...
10 ساعات
agree Saleh Dardeer
2 أيام 10 ساعات
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
5 دقائق

making funny

making funny

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In just three features, he has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary cinema, a fake realist with a wickedly playful sense of the banalities which fill our lives and a cubist sense of the tricks and traps of narrative form. Nobody else in world cinema is making funny/sad movies like these.

http://2001.wifilmfest.org/series_details.asp?id=12
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+1
19 دقائق

pretending to be funny

pretending to be funny
Peer comment(s):

agree Mustafa Fadhel : I couldn't agree more
10 ساعات
thanks
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48 دقائق

joking

may be ...
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+2
2 ساعات

trying to be funny

More context would help, but it's often used when someone is trying to be funny but others don't think he is "ده ايه الاستظراف ده"

You could also say something like "forced humour"..
Peer comment(s):

agree Joseph_A : I agree with this translation most, especially in Egyptian use. I have heard comments that Muhammad Sa'd "biystazraf aktar min al laazim". So perhaps a succint English translation would be "hamming it up"
23 ساعات
Thanks - and good suggestion, if only we had more context.
agree Saleh Dardeer
2 أيام 8 ساعات
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17 ساعات

Making laughter

It is an activity that makes men laugh.
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20 ساعات

cutelessness

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1 يوم 1 ساعة

hamming it up

with negative connotations, this word roughly approximates "hamming it up". It's not about actually being nice, or funny.
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+1
2 ساعات

find him/her cute ---or he's humorous, amusing, funny

في حال كان القصد أن فلان استظرف فلانل
فهو الجواب الأول

أما في حال استظرف الشخص أي حاول أن يتظارف تكون الجواب الثاني

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antipathetic
- unbearable - unpleasant - a bore
Peer comment(s):

agree younes-01 : I totally agree with you, the best answer so far I think.
21 ساعات
thank you Younes, pleasure knowing you
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6 ساعات

الاستظراف = Mockery

Mockery, ridicule, something absurd, an imitation, a subject or occasion of derision etc.

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Flat jokes

Do you mean when a boring person tells a joke that falls flat and no one laughs
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4 أيام

affectation

كلمة الاستظراف تعني تصنع الظرف ويقابلها بالانجليزية كلمة affectation التي تعني تصنع
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5 أيام

To get smart

Don't get smart!
I think that's a derivative from Smart Alec or in todays terms, Smart Ass.

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Or in this context, simply, lame!
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