manspreading

Arabic translation: الجلوس بساقين متباعدتين

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14:57 Apr 4, 2020
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Additional field(s): General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters, Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc., Slang
English term or phrase: manspreading
Definition from Oxford:
The practice whereby a man, especially one traveling on public transportation, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats.

Example sentence(s):
  • A student has faced an "unpleasant backlash" over her award-winning chair designed to stop "manspreading". BBC News
  • Anna Dovgalyuk, 20, has started splashing a mixture of water and bleach on the groins of men with their legs spread too far on the St Petersberg metro. The law student embarked on the one-woman crusade to stop manspreading and has accused men in her native Russia of "gender aggression" but says the country is not doing enough the tackle the problem. The Sun
  • Whilst it's most certainly not the politest of ways to sit oneself, does the act of manspreading really legitimise anybody to define space as “inherently gendered”, as Mic subsequently did? Is it actually a case of men monopolising a woman’s space out of intrinsic entitlement? Or does science play a bigger part than we might think? Independent
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Arabic translation:الجلوس بساقين متباعدتين
Definition:
الجلوس بساقين متباعدتين في وسائل النقل العامة، وهكذا يحتل الشخص مساحة أكبر مما خُصص له.
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4 +2الجلوس بساقين متباعدتين
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الجلوس بساقين متباعدتين


Definition from wikipedia:
الجلوس بساقين متباعدتين في وسائل النقل العامة، وهكذا يحتل الشخص مساحة أكبر مما خُصص له.

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  • حملة ضد "تمدد الشخص" في مقعده في حافلات مدريد - alwatan news  
mona elshazly
Egypt
Local time: 02:37
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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Yes  Khalid Idris
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Yes  HATEM EL HADARY
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