re: #159 Vicious Babushka
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The name al-Harbire: #178 CuriousLurker
The stupid, it burns.
Just wait till someone tells them that harbi means warlike, belligerent, military, etc.
I swear I’m really gonna get back to work now and stop peeking at the Spy. //
It also means this (from Wikipedia):
Dar al-Harb (Arabic: دار الحرب “house of war”; also referred to as Dar al-Garb “house of the West” in later Ottoman sources; a person from “Dar al-Harb” is a “harbi” (Arabic:حربي)) is a term classically referring to those countries where the Muslim law is not in force …