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To: AnnaZ
Actually, I think it's probably spelled and pronounced correctly. Arabic is very weird. When words have different tenses and meanings, they don't change the ending of the word, they change sounds in the beginning and middle. Thus, Islam and Muslim. The word is -sl-m, the parts where the dashes are determine the meaning, gender, number and so on.

So, Allah, or the word for their moon god, whose forms are variations of -lah, when followed by the hezbo part of hezbollah, might just be lah. An Arabic speaker could verify.

5 posted on 07/22/2006 9:42:36 PM PDT by Defiant (Proportionate response means: Whatever Israel is doing, make them stop before it succeeds.)
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To: Defiant
I don't know, but I'd love to have an official Arab-speaker's take on it. For instance, I know that with insha'allah... (if it's God's will)... they pronounce the ending a and the beginning a.

(Plus it usually was Hezboallah in the past. Still exists online.)

7 posted on 07/22/2006 9:47:26 PM PDT by AnnaZ (I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?)
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To: Defiant

Hiz B'Allah is the correct way to spell it. "Hiz" means party, and "B'" is a prefix that means under or of, and "Allah" is god. It is correct to separate the two words because in reality they are separate.


36 posted on 07/27/2006 5:02:25 PM PDT by queenandbooks
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