أباجورة

English translation: table lamp or desk lamp

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Arabic term or phrase:أباجورة
English translation:table lamp or desk lamp
Entered by: Abdelmonem Samir

10:38 Jul 17, 2008
Arabic to English translations [Non-PRO]
Furniture / Household Appliances
Arabic term or phrase: أباجورة
محتويات الأنتريه:-

- قطع أثاث.
- سجادة.
-لمبدير.
- أباجورة.
Neveen Abdallah
Local time: 01:12
table lamp or desk lamp
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Abdelmonem Samir
Local time: 01:12
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2lampshade
Nadia Ayoub
5table lamp or desk lamp
Abdelmonem Samir
4side lamp
Mohamed Ghazal
4window shade
David Wilmsen


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
lampshade


Explanation:
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Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 01:12
Native speaker of: Arabic

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ahmadwadan.com
2 mins
  -> Thank you Ahmad :)

neutral  Abdelmonem Samir: I think this refers to the cover only. Best of luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampshade
2 mins

agree  zkt: abajura is from french abat-jout it is lampshade
33 mins
  -> I guess you have a French background too! Many thanks Zkt :)
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
table lamp or desk lamp


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Abdelmonem Samir
Local time: 01:12
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
side lamp


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Mohamed Ghazal
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 03:12
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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1 day 19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
window shade


Explanation:
In the Levant, أباجورة means a window shade, the telescoping kind that roll down over the window (or the French door). In Egypt it means a lamp. So the overall meaning in Arabic must mean "shade" including a lamp shade and by extension the lamp itself, as in other colleagues contributions. Clearly a borrowing and not an original Arabic word

David Wilmsen
Local time: 03:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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