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الحسود

English translation: Envious

11:49 Oct 13, 2020
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Children's stories
Arabic term or phrase: الحسود
وقف بخيلٌ وحسودٌ أمام ملك، فقال لهما: "اطلبا أيّ شيءٍ تريدانه، وسأعطي الثّاني ضعف طلب الأوّل". لم يكن أيّ منهما يريد للآخر أن يأخذ أكثر منه، فأخذا يتشاجران طويلاً، ويطلبُ كلٌّ منهما من الآخر أن يطلب أولاً، فقال الملك: "إن لم تفعلا ما آمركما به قطعت رأسيكما". فقال الحسود للملك: "يا مولاي اقلع إحدى عيني
Shahad
English translation:Envious
Explanation:
حسود و بخيل= envious and miserly

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Note added at 42 days (2020-11-24 14:01:24 GMT) Post-grading
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A miserly and an envious stood before a king, and he told them: "Ask for anything you want, and I will give the second twice as much as the first." Neither of them wanted the other to take more than him, so they quarreled for a long time, and each of them asked the other to ask first, so the king said: "If you do not do what I command you, I will cut off your heads." The envious said to the king: "Oh, my lord, take off one of my eyes
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Ashraf Aly CertTrans-CIOL
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5 +4Envious
Ashraf Aly CertTrans-CIOL
5envious
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
envious


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Diya Takrouri
Türkiye
Local time: 14:51
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 18

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  S.J: It is better to back you colleague instead of repeating of the same answer!
1 hr
  -> Thanks! However, if you take a look at the time interval between my posting and my colleague’s; you can see that this is a case of “simultaneous posting”; accordingly you’d be in a better position to adopt a professional attitude in future.
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Envious


Explanation:
حسود و بخيل= envious and miserly

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Note added at 42 days (2020-11-24 14:01:24 GMT) Post-grading
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A miserly and an envious stood before a king, and he told them: "Ask for anything you want, and I will give the second twice as much as the first." Neither of them wanted the other to take more than him, so they quarreled for a long time, and each of them asked the other to ask first, so the king said: "If you do not do what I command you, I will cut off your heads." The envious said to the king: "Oh, my lord, take off one of my eyes

Ashraf Aly CertTrans-CIOL
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:51
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 12
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agree  Youssef Chabat
8 mins
  -> Thank you
agree  S.J: One of your colleagues asked the same question with the same context.
1 hr
  -> Thank you
agree  Diya Takrouri
2 hrs
  -> Thank you
agree  niimatallahb: Can I have please the translation of the whole texte?
42 days
  -> NO PROBS, WILL ADD A NOTE
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