what does the term "bint" mean?

[missrandom]

its obviously derogatory, but is it a northern thing, you see as a southerner i have never heard this term before, except on here.

[MustafaTickl]

Quite so, heathfield. In my time the chant was "Queen Farida, Queen Farida, shufti bint" meaning "look at that woman" - she was rather gorgeous, I've managed to find a photograph of her here http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1391/754259189_ 9f3c4244ac_o.jpg
There was also an ancillary chant concerning King Farouk, but it is unprintable (at least by me).
Ah, happy days.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah the Arabic is something like:

Malika Farida kanet jamila *******

all the a's are because it is a female sentence

there may be a tay marbuta hiding in jamila

Kanet is good - kan is he was and kanet she was
yes observers, the arabic verb identifies gender

The verb system is kan
in Arabic - kan wa uktiha - Kan and her sisters - the sisters are other verbs conjugated like kan

Anyone remember the Sisterhood of Kan as a group of telepaths in Dr Who? I freaked out when I saw it is an arabic textbook ten years later

Oh, Dalek could be split as Dha aleek (that to you) and is apparently Lebanese idiom for mind your own business

Bint, not really a work tgo be used with Malika

Shufti I have often lain in bed wonderinng about

Shuftoo is I have seen,and the final vowel is usually suppressed in oral Arabic

Hal shuft al bint - Didja see the gurl ?

-y is a strongly bound morpheme which converts a noun into an adjective

but shouldnt be tacked onto the end of shuft
as far as I can see (see, shuft haha geddit ?)

PP - now you see why I am called Pedant

Oh and I am an engineer and my car back fires alot-not a very good engineer obviously - and I know some arabic. Does that mean that CIA/MI5 are gonna crash through my door as I write this....?

[Peter Pedant]

blimey the curse of the stars for the arabic word for leddy

this was in case 14 yr olds go scrambling for a naughty word

sayylda - the l is a dotted i and if you write that
you end up typing why-eye-dee
which is a naughty word.

Ho hum

Sic transit as they say

[Quizmonster]

Ah...the testicular hook, eh, Mustafa?

[MustafaTickl]

To stretch a point with it, Quizmonster, one more and he would have set himself up as a pawnbroker.

[smeghead81]

it just means 'woman' my sister calls her friend 'bint' all the time, perhaps its to do with bimbo, but not as derogatory

[Hossam_Marzouk]

The word "Lady" means a girl, a young woman (rather younger than 20) in Arabic.
It may be used as exclamation when a girl kid does something bad or something; like when your daughter screams, you say "Lady!?"
You can say "I saw a beautiful (young) Lady yesterday."
But it's derogatory when you say "Hey Lady!" to a girl.
I'm a native speaker of Egyptian Arabic BTW :D.