Sep 1, 2004 11:44
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عربي term
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Native in: أنجليزي 
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عربات صالون والبكاسي (Aarabaat saloon wal bakaasi)
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Is "aarabaat saloon" limousines? What about "bakaasi"? What is that? Thanks.
Proposed translations
(أنجليزي)
| 2 +3 | saloon cars and paddy wagons |
ArabInk
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| 4 +1 | saloon cars (limousines) and sand trucks (trucks) |
Moushira El-Mogy
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Proposed translations
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عربي term (edited):
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saloon cars and paddy wagons
This is from the Hinds-Badawi dictionary of Egyptian Arabic. Which is, by the way, a masterpiece of lexicography; if you don't have a copy you should definitely get one. It says صالون means "saloon car (in a train)". I don't know what this is; maybe dining or bar car. It must be a Britishism (Hinds is British). Wehr has a similar enty. بكاسي I don't know, but H-B says بٌكس means paddy wagon, i.e. a police wagon for transporting prisoners, from the English (presumably "box"). It doesn't list a plural form.
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Note added at 3 hrs 12 mins (2004-09-01 14:56:42 GMT)
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Idle speculation: if the source text does indeed refer to trains, maybe بكاسي refers to box cars?
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Note added at 1 day 4 hrs 42 mins (2004-09-02 16:27:07 GMT)
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Another possibility re: box is \"shipping containers\". These are the big metal boxes you see stacked up at ports and on ocean-going vessels. Lots of freight is shipped using these things in the US; they move them directly to and from ships, flatbed trucks, and flatbed railcars.
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Note added at 3 hrs 12 mins (2004-09-01 14:56:42 GMT)
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Idle speculation: if the source text does indeed refer to trains, maybe بكاسي refers to box cars?
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Note added at 1 day 4 hrs 42 mins (2004-09-02 16:27:07 GMT)
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Another possibility re: box is \"shipping containers\". These are the big metal boxes you see stacked up at ports and on ocean-going vessels. Lots of freight is shipped using these things in the US; they move them directly to and from ships, flatbed trucks, and flatbed railcars.
Peer comment(s):
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Nesrin
: I think you're right - I've seen a number of Sudanese websites mentioning بكاسي and بوكس in the same text - though from the context I don't think they referred to police wagons in particular (I think they're a kind of public transport)
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| agree |
Stephen Franke
: Might refer to the public taxi service found in Lebanon called (per French origin) as "service" public taxi service
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| agree |
Amidas
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Not very sure, but I used "Dining cars and box cars"... Your comments were helpful in this regard... Thanks..."
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Moushira El-Mogy
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عربي term (edited):
����� ����� �������� (Aarabaat saloon wal bakaasi)
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