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Do you ever fd yourself pletely lost when your iends start g slang words for gay? Don't worry; you're not alone. Read this till the end...

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ARABIC WORDS FOR 'GAY' NEED TO BE BETTER THAN 'PERVERT' OR 'DEVIANT'

Vis our Arabic Gay Dictnary to learn how to say gay Arabic. It is part of our LGBT dictnary wh more than 1600 entri om 68 languag. * gay arab slang *

(I am the Arab world a lot however and learng more each trip) Perhaps after the a iend, Foued Mokrani, speaks Arabic jt fe -- and reported on his Facebook page the followg after watchg a film durg a flight to Paris:I watched the movie The Bt Exotic Marigold Hotel and noticed they translate the word ''gay" to ''pervert" the Arabic subtl!! They should sue the exchange trigued me -- and obvly raised the qutn of what the right word Arabic might be for "gay" and my own experience wh the language whether there was such a word at all.

Another menter on Mokrani's page wrote:Maybe "homosexual" Arabic tak too many letters. Mokrani rpond:Somehow there is no cent word to say homosexual Arabic..

GAY DICTNARY ARABIC

Started recently g a word for but still very unfaiar I wrote to Mokrani about this, trigued that a language as distguished, betiful and storied as Arabic would not have been mornized to clu "homosexual" s basic vobulary, he wrote this to me:In Arabic, there is no exact word to say "homosexual. " Recently, a few people started g the word "mhli" modifyg the word for "sex" -- meang "same as me" they ed the movie is "pervert" to translate the word gay -- or "cheth" same word was ed by my Imam when I met him as a young guy and told him I like trigued, I lled Ghah al-Omari, executive director of the Amerin Task Force on Palte, to see whether what I was hearg was right or not -- and ask how he would say the word "gay. " Al-Omari jt happened to be walkg to a lecture he was givg to a bunch of foreign service stunts on the topic of Arabic language, so the timg was texted me after his lecture:I have on good thory that the word is "mhli al-js" (which is a leral translatn of "homosexual"), sometime shortened to "mhli" which is the leral translatn of "homo.

"Other menters on the Mokrani thread wrote that Arabic also tends to scribe gays as viants -- g words like "munharif" and "shadh. "There are lots of stggl si Arab terra today -- about human rights, about the role of women, about gays, relign, tn, about morny general -- but clive language that buttrs society's evolutn and advancement seems important.

LEBANE ARABIC: GAY/HOMOSEXUAL

To that end, translators of Amerin movi -- like the terrific and heartwarmg The Bt Exotic Marigold Hotel -- really ought to preference words like "homosexual" or even "homo" their Arabic form over "pervert" or "viant. EnciclopædiaHow to say gay ArabicBelow are the words of our Arabic Gay Dictnary that we will expand new edns. Dpe beg nsired a crime and many s wh the ath penalty, some studi affirm that the separatn of sex and the srce heterosexual eedom, outsi of marriage and prostutn, greater homosexual dictnary clus posive neologisms ed at the end of the 20th century by profsnals psychology, soclogy, and journalists sce until that date there were only pejorative words.

12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!

+JuniJuni, like Misli el js, is a posive neologism whose translatn to the English language would be a homosexual man. +Juniya MisliyaThe Arabic language did not have non-rogative exprsns to talk about sexual diversy, but at the end of the 20th-century profsnals om psychology, soclogy and journalists began g the exprsn Juniya Misliya as the Arabic equivalent of the word homosexualy, created a century earlier. ·Hawiya juniya: homosexual inty.

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