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South Levantine Arabic
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Literally: “we mentioned the cat and he came jumping”.
ذكرنا القطّ، أجا ينط • (zakarna l-qoṭṭ, ʾaja ynoṭṭ)
- speak of the devil[1]
- Synonym: ابن الحلال عند ذكره ببان (ʔibn il-ḥalāl ʕind zikro bibān)
- ^ J. Elihay (2012) The Olive Tree Dictionary: A Transliterated dictionary of Conversational Eastern Arabic, Minerva Publishing House, →ISBN, page 439