Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Arabic term or phrase:
عقال الصمت
English translation:
silence
Added to glossary by
Lamine Boukabour
Sep 27, 2023 13:58
8 mos ago
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Arabic term
عقال الصمت
Arabic to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Hi everyone,
What does this mean?
إن حزني يتكاثف ويُرغي كلّما انطلق الناس من عقال الصمت، ويرنّمون أناشيد الحاية، و يهللون ....
It's from a Lebanese text.
Thank you!
What does this mean?
إن حزني يتكاثف ويُرغي كلّما انطلق الناس من عقال الصمت، ويرنّمون أناشيد الحاية، و يهللون ....
It's from a Lebanese text.
Thank you!
Proposed translations
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Change log
Oct 2, 2023 12:06: Lamine Boukabour Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Arabic term (edited):
كلّما انطلق الناس من عقال الصمت
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whenever people break the silence
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https://kenanaonline.com/users/khfajy/posts/576173
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https://kenanaonline.com/users/khfajy/posts/576173
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8 mins
remain silent / keeping quiet
عقال الصمت = التزام الصمت
10 mins
absolute silence
absolute silence
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which means a complete lack of noise or sound.
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as people broke out the absolute silence
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which means a complete lack of noise or sound.
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as people broke out the absolute silence
6 hrs
Silence keeper
"Silence keeper" is someone who doesn't say anything either because this person doesn't want to or because he/she was forced to keep silence. عقال is a word that has the same root as اعْتُقِلَ, we can also say اعْتُقِلَ لسانُه which means: his knotted tongue. So the best expression in my opinion to translate that is : Whenever silence keepers start singing ...
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15 hrs
every time people break the silence
The next sentence shows that they start singing and chanting, which means they broke the silence.
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