Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Petr:

Unless Google Translate is way off, ﺭﺎﻣﺣﻠﺍ ﺭﺎﻳﺒ comes out as Ramehla RIPE,
what ever that means.

A lot of those 19th century travelogs had very creative stories.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz> wrote:

> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 12:35:44PM -0400, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Uri Hurwitz:
> >
> > Is your point that modern standard Arabic does not use these words?
>
> I think, Uri Hurwitz try to say, that "bitumen" in arabic
> does not have a long vocal in the second syllabe (and a shadda
> over mim). So "ḥumar", not "ḥummār"...
>
> P.
>
>