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at: at the hotel aand el fondo’


                                        awake: is he awake? howa
                   at the station aand el   avenue taree’
                  mahatta                sāhee?

                   at six o’clock es-sāaa sitta    is she awake? hayya sahīa?

              English ➜ Arabic
                   at Ahmed’s aand ahmad  away: is it far away? howa da
                                         beaeed?
                 ATM el ‘bank’ esh-shakhsee
                                        awful fazeea
                 August aghostos

                 aunt (mother’s sister) khāla  B

                   (father’s sister) aamma  baby ‘baby’

                 Australia ostralya     baby food akl atfāl

                 Australian ostrālee    baby’s bottle ezāzit redāaa

             ABCDEFGHIJKLAt
                   I’m Australian (said by man/  baby-sitter dāda
                  woman) ana ostrālee/
                  ostralaya             back (of body) dahr

                 autumn khareef           (back part) teez

                   in the autumn fil khareef    at the back fil ākher


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