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Friday, July 2, 2010

Khartoum Sickle Moon

The moon above makes me think of the nursery rhyme "Hey, diddle, diddle"

The Arabic word for moon is gamirr and for half-moon is hilaal

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15 comments:

  1. Beautiful picture of the moon, Jo.

    Have a wonderful weekend. We've got a big holiday here.
    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  2. Wow, what a striking moon photo, Jo. Spectacular!

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  3. This moon definitely looks like a cow might jump over it at any moment!

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  4. What a gorgeous capture, Jo! Absolutely perfect moon shot! Superb! Hope you have a great weekend!

    Hugs,

    Sylvia

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  5. Nice shot of the waning gamirr.

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  6. Beautiful shot of the moon, Jo! Happy skywatching!

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  7. Beautiful shot of the moon, Jo! Happy skywatching!

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  8. Great capture. It looks like a scene from Peter Pan.

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  9. Excellent picture, Jo :)
    Have a lovely weekend.
    ☼ Sunny

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  10. In my North Egyptian accent we say Amar, in Standard Arabic it's Qamar, in many dialects it would be Gamar, Q in Sudanese is usually pronounsed "Gh" like French and German R, this is why you wrote Afriqia Afriria now I understand.
    I didn't think u're arrogant or anything like that (if you count me in) but people sometimes get annoyed if some1 tells them they may be wrong, I don't wanna annoy anyone and I'm happy that I don't annoy you :)
    Vegetables are Khodrawat, it comes from Green (Akhdar (masc.) and Khadra (Fem.) kh is like German ch (in Buch) or Scottish (Loch) or Spanish J, if you write it gh Arabs would think you mean French R غ
    I love languages, if you want I can help you learn Arabic in its standard or Egyptian form

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  11. here's a song titled "Amarain" 2 moons, you'll like it since you love Arabic
    http://www.4shared.com/audio/GRzHHwLN/_online.htm

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  12. amazing moon shot...

    Have a joyous weekend!

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  13. Yes to hey diddle diddle. Nice shot!
    Hope all is well over there.

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