Apparently Daesh Is The New Word For Is/isis Etc

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/what-daesh-mean-isis-threatens-6841468
World leaders have started to use it, I assume the pronunciation is Day shh, so now we know what to call them.

[-SharonA-]

I can think of something better which rhymes with shh!!

[Dahlia_Lama]

Daesh is not new. It just hasn't been adopted by the mainstream media.

[Jackdaw33]

ISIS or ISIL are acronyms of the English translation.


'Daesh' is an acronym for the Arabic phrase al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham - 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant'.

IS hate it because it's similar to two Arabic words: 'Daes', which translates to 'one who crushes something underfoot', and 'Dahes', meaning 'one who sows discord'.

The more we use it the better.

[Answerprancer]

"World leaders have started to use it"
...I won't then ;-)

[ToraToraTora]

well you wont want to upset your mates eh AP.

[retrocop]

Yes. They hate it so lets all use it.Sure there are a few Daesh sympathisers here just from what i read today !!!

[tonyav]

I have only heard the French use Daesh as yet.

[Jackdaw33]

Well said, TTT

[Hypognosis]

@Jackdaw33

Any chance you could help out with my linguistic puzzle thread, in Soc & Culture?

[retrocop]

Case proved :-)

[Jackdaw33]

Early this year Tony Abbott, then Prime Minister of Australia, announced that he would begin referring to Islamic State as such, saying:
"Daesh hates being referred to by this term, and what they don't like has an instinctive appeal to me"

[retrocop]

Obama uses it with the rest of his advisors Tonyav . There is a link.

[Answerprancer]

What mates? ;-)

[-Talbot-]

They started some time ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11339621/Tony-Abbott-urges-leaders-to-refer-to-Isil-as-Daesh-because-they-hate-the-term.html

[Jackdaw33]

Soz, Hypo. I have no knowledge of Arabic. My posts are the result of googling.

Try me with French, Russian or Welsh.

[Jackdaw33]

What mates? ;-)

Corbyn/Livingstone perhaps?

[Answerprancer]

Nah mate, they're politicians - hate them!

[Answerprancer]

Sorry Thatcher - that was for JD!