Talk:ميز

Gulf Arabic

I'm the one who edited away the "obsolete" in the Gulf Arabic entry a while ago. Since then, a native speaker added that it's definitely obsolete in Kuwait. Now I know I heard this word from a Kuwaiti in his late thirties. However, he spent some time in Iraq. So I don't know. At least in Iraq it's definitely still a current word. Here's a video by a young successful make-up youtuber without doubt unlikely to use obsolete words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMDsSXzmMPQonce (ca. 3:33). It's in a restaurant. It's seems to be the counter, but it's not entirely clear. Could also be a table. So the point is: Perhaps it's actually obsolete in Gulf Arabic. I'm not sure anymore. But it's definitely still current in Iraq. (Perhaps I should've been a bit more cautious with my editing, but since I'd heard it several times from Iraqis and at least once from a Kuwaiti I thought that the "obsolete" must've been mistaken.) 2.202.159.91 00:55, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

I was born and raised in Kuwait yet the first time I heard the word was from a TV series from the 70s, used by an old person (which might suggest it had been dated or old-fashioned but not obsolete by then, or maybe not, I don't know). However, that is about the only time. How about adding a 'may be dated or obsolete in some dialects' label before the definitions? --Emascandam (talk) 19:19, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

According to this site, the word is used in Iraq and used to be heard in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, which fits well with what was said. --Emascandam (talk) 19:26, 29 August 2019 (UTC)