ChatterBank1 min ago
Arabic saying
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Blimey explain the Bohemian rhapsody to me. i could never understand why bismillah featured.
The phrase is an amalgam of three words
bi.....ism(u) .....Allah(u)
Allahu is in the genitive - allahi - of god
and the short u elides with the big A of Allah,
ismullahi - the name of God (an idafa construction I think)
Finally the two i's of bi and ism elide but then ism has to take a genitive itself ism(u) becomes ism(i)
bismillahi
The Egyptians ignore all the final vowels which are unstressed (like the final vowels in Anglo-Saxon actually) which makes life easier but it is very obvious that the Egyptians do not speak Classical Arabic
All the surahs (chapters) of K or would that be Q begin bismillahi al rahman al raheem (Oh God I havent told you about the huruf shamsiyya!) and this makes it even more incomprehensible why it is in Bohemian rhapsody