Re: [nukkad] Lost in translation

["Ravi Menon" <>]

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Salaam is an Arabic term. The Hebrew for Peace or Salaam is Shalom.
Jerusalem means city of peace in hebrew. *Yerushaláyim* or *Yerushalaim.*
Dar  Ul Salaam - the L is replaced by the S since "S"   is a Qamreein
alphabet - much like the vowels and consonants in English.- Arabic has
Qamrein and Shamseen.
The  Arabic word  for Jerusalem is Al Quds.


On 9/20/06, Rohit Mansukhlal  wrote:
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> > The original Hebrew version said "Jerusalem. There is no city like
> > it!". The English translation?
> > "Jerusalem. There is no such city!"
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> > - Harshal
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> Jerusalem is the anglicized version of old Hebrew ' Dar Ul Salaam ' , Dar
> meaning house and salaam meaning peace. Also Jerusalem became popular as
> late as only ninety years ago when the British defeated Ottoman Turks in
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> First WW. In Arabic too the city is called Dar Ul Salaam and it's meaning
> too is the same. Conjunction of two words is permitted in Arabic, very
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> like in Sanskrit and thus Dar Ul Salaam reduces to Dar ussalaam, the sound
> of L in Ul becoming redundant.
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> When the Arabs captured the countries of the east coast of Africa, they
> founded another city by the same name which until today remains
> Dar-e-salam.
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> Rohit Zaveri.
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