mjeed
English translation: military ranks and state official titles - keep as is
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| 5 | military ranks and state official titles - keep as is |
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| 3 +1 | Al-majid |
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peer agreement (net): +1Al-majid Explanation: Ali Hassan Al-majid Chemical Ali https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hassan_al-Majid My best suggestion since it mentions Bashar the father |
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| mjeed (title); bashar (military rank) military ranks and state official titles - keep as is Explanation: In such texts we should keep those ranks and titles as is, without translating. The words themselves are Persian-Indian-Moghul with Arabic language influence. See for example the Italian translation, all these ranks and titles were rendered as is. Page 43 of the Italian version: L'Imperatore-Dio di Dune - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kLxlAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43#v=o... The rank BASHAR means Colonel Bashar as a rank, not a name: "an officer of the Sardaukar a fractional point above Colonel in the standardised military classification. Rank created for military ruler of a planetary sub district. Bahsar of the Corps is a title reserved strictly for military use." See page 602 in book Dune: The Gateway Collection - Terminology of the Imperium. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FZOdS_02yacC&pg=PT602 (Bashar as a word and name means 'herald' (with two variations: bashar and bashir), but the borrowed word in this context as a military rank is a further corrupt adaptation of 'mushir' meaning marshal.) As for mjeed it's another title, like the raja, rakah. Originally pronounced as 'Majeed' literally means glorious, since most mogul kings were 'glorious shahs' or ministers 'vizir', but in the context is a title which should be left as is. --- (These are ranks and titles, not names, which appeared in the Dune series in 1965. These have nothing to do with Iraqi Ali H Majeed or Syrian Bashar Al-Assad!!) - More on characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizations_of_the_Dune_univ... - "Set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the Padishah Emperor" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel) - Title: Padishah Emperor borrowed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padishah |
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