Nadene Goldfoot
On Fareed Zakaria's Sunday morning program of GPS (GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE) this morning, Fareed had a Muslim woman on who was skilled in Arabic. She has brought out something most people haven't realized. The translation of virgin has been incorrect. The word, which is a gift for good behavior for Muslims in the after-life, is not Virgins, but Raisins. Virgin= عذراء; Raisins=زبيب
Now, Fareed Zakaria was born in Mumbai, India, and may be a Muslim. Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-born American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He's Harvard educated. He didn't mention what he thought of the outcome of his guest's analyzing the word, Virgin, but his father was an Islamic scholar, so I believe he must be a Muslim and was not offended.
Being curious, I looked up the word Virgin in our Hebrew Dictionary, and it is betooliah or batool,
Our Hebrew word for "Young Lady" is bakhoorah, which is very similar to Virgin. גברת צעירה, and this Hebrew is saying young lady using Geveret instead of Bakhoorah. So there are at least 2 words for lady.
Only in my dictionary , young lady it start with a B (Bet) . This is the google translator.
Virgin in Hebrew is בתולה betooliah or batool.
The pronunciation of betoolia and bakhoorah are slightly similar. Look at (young lady) and if it started with a B as it does in my dictionary, not geveret-the ending is the same as Virgin.
It makes you wonder how competent the translators were and what they were depending on. Jewish commentators have said for many years that the word, Virgin, really was young lady in Hebrew.
Fareed's guest was quite emphatic that there were no 72 virgins awaiting people who die for the cause and need rewarding. Perhaps that should slow down ISIS, hmmm?
It would take a lady to argue against 72 virgins. We'd much rather the reward be 72 raisins any day. Anyway, in these days, they should have run out of 72 virgins per man quickly. They'll have to resort to 72 raisins.
When translating from one language to another, it really is important to be an Anthropologist as well as a Linguist. I marvel at people who are bi-lingual or even tri-lingual or more. I had a teacher in Israel who knew 26 languages. How deeply or at what grade level that would be, I do not know. It could be just to say hello in 23 languages or it could be to read literature in 23 languages. Some languages are related to each other. That makes the transition easier, like Spanish and Italian. Some people can barely handle one language-English.
Reading Hebrew is difficult even though it only has 22 letters, and English has 26. Hebrew only as vowels that are the Aleph, Ayin, and Vuv which becomes an oo or an oh sound. You just have to KNOW the word to read it. Sight reading is more important that sounding it out many a time.
Arabic and Hebrew have many similarities. They should find the transition from one to another quite a bit easier than us who are not native readers. Arabic and Hebrew are both taught in Israel's school system. The lucky students do help each other in their homework. I never had a friend who could help me with my Latin studies, and my husband and I both floundered with out Hebrew homework assignments as we were new Olim, and I had quit learning after the primer book in 1st grade! We had to hire a tutor for our 10 months 6 days a week school in Haifa as middle-aged adults. My husband could read prayers, but forget the newspaper!
I've come to the conclusion that you either have a talent for languages or you don't. Obviously, there have been some un-talented translators in the past.
Reference: Fareed Zakariah, May 22, 2016 program
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On Fareed Zakaria's Sunday morning program of GPS (GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE) this morning, Fareed had a Muslim woman on who was skilled in Arabic. She has brought out something most people haven't realized. The translation of virgin has been incorrect. The word, which is a gift for good behavior for Muslims in the after-life, is not Virgins, but Raisins. Virgin= عذراء; Raisins=زبيب
Now, Fareed Zakaria was born in Mumbai, India, and may be a Muslim. Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-born American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He's Harvard educated. He didn't mention what he thought of the outcome of his guest's analyzing the word, Virgin, but his father was an Islamic scholar, so I believe he must be a Muslim and was not offended.
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| Young Israeli girl did blessing over Shabbat candles and has taken off her scarf now. |
Only in my dictionary , young lady it start with a B (Bet) . This is the google translator.
Virgin in Hebrew is בתולה betooliah or batool.
The pronunciation of betoolia and bakhoorah are slightly similar. Look at (young lady) and if it started with a B as it does in my dictionary, not geveret-the ending is the same as Virgin.
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| Almost all girls now serve in the IDF at age 18. |
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| Israeli girls are known for their beauty. The religious girls do not bathe in the sun on a mixed beach, though. |
Fareed's guest was quite emphatic that there were no 72 virgins awaiting people who die for the cause and need rewarding. Perhaps that should slow down ISIS, hmmm?
It would take a lady to argue against 72 virgins. We'd much rather the reward be 72 raisins any day. Anyway, in these days, they should have run out of 72 virgins per man quickly. They'll have to resort to 72 raisins.
When translating from one language to another, it really is important to be an Anthropologist as well as a Linguist. I marvel at people who are bi-lingual or even tri-lingual or more. I had a teacher in Israel who knew 26 languages. How deeply or at what grade level that would be, I do not know. It could be just to say hello in 23 languages or it could be to read literature in 23 languages. Some languages are related to each other. That makes the transition easier, like Spanish and Italian. Some people can barely handle one language-English.
Reading Hebrew is difficult even though it only has 22 letters, and English has 26. Hebrew only as vowels that are the Aleph, Ayin, and Vuv which becomes an oo or an oh sound. You just have to KNOW the word to read it. Sight reading is more important that sounding it out many a time.
Arabic and Hebrew have many similarities. They should find the transition from one to another quite a bit easier than us who are not native readers. Arabic and Hebrew are both taught in Israel's school system. The lucky students do help each other in their homework. I never had a friend who could help me with my Latin studies, and my husband and I both floundered with out Hebrew homework assignments as we were new Olim, and I had quit learning after the primer book in 1st grade! We had to hire a tutor for our 10 months 6 days a week school in Haifa as middle-aged adults. My husband could read prayers, but forget the newspaper!
I've come to the conclusion that you either have a talent for languages or you don't. Obviously, there have been some un-talented translators in the past.
Reference: Fareed Zakariah, May 22, 2016 program
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