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The unthinkable happened. US-Israeli bombs have damaged the Qajar palace complex of Golestan in central Tehran. The hall of mirrors is damaged. 200 year old wooden panels are destroyed. I have no idea what else. This is now personal.

Shit 😞 I'm fortunate enough to have seen it 2 years ago

kaboom kaplow

It used to be incessant construction noise waking me up every morning, now it's explosions in the sky & drones buzzing. It all looks the same from my end really

We say mohom ~ mo-om

3s. ni/niste
1s. nehom

But there is so much dialectal variation that there might as well be dialects where it's the way you wrote it.

Most dialects have 3s. -en, which is cognate with Balochi -ent/-int, which I think is from hēnd? (in these dialects the 3p. is also -en)

In some Achomi dialects, the copula is also -e.

It remains -e even after -a, so xuna ast is xuna-e ~ xuna-y.

The exception is after -u and -i, where it becomes -a:

johu-a “it's beautiful”
xardani-a “it's edible”

And when the 's' resurfaces in e.g. xuna-s خونه‌س. Does he address that?

The booms just started again here

Our interceptor missiles don't seem very effective.

Dang drone sounded like it was right above our house, I was bracing for impact

Thanks🙏🏻

Smoke billowing

Our whole house shook over here

Most likely via the Hindustani verb band karnā بند کرنا 'to close'.

Southern Persian dialects also haveبند کردن 'to close'.

The same verb means 'to close' in Bahrain and eastern Saudi.

bannad, ybannid, etc

From Hindi-Urdu band 'closed', from Persian band- 'to close'.

Looks like Qabus will be getting an email from the plagiarism office

bitt < bint in village dialects in Bahrain too.

Another example of this pattern, with emphatic F:

təf̣ag 'rifle, musket'

Huh, so that's where būri comes from (a word I know to mean 'faucet', though typically in Bahrain we say lōlab for faucet, from Persian)

We also say zegert زِگِرت in Achomi, and it has the Khaleeji meaning ('stylish, well-dressed').

We distinguish between حط and خلى

ḥaṭṭ = put
xalla = keep, let

In the first example we'd use مخلي while the latter two would have حاط.

But strangely, I noticed at uni the Shia youth seem to use خلى in all cases now 🤔

Huh, it looks like Iraqi does the same thing, xāll for the active participle instead of mxalli (even though it's a pattern II verb):

Yeah, they are. And Yemenis take it a step further and pronounce ق as /g/ even when speaking MSA in an official capacity.

Yeah, it's a commonly heard sound. In a non-inherited MSA word, like رقم 'number', we always pronounce it as raqam (or raġam among those who switch). Unlike say, Saudis who would say ragam, or Levantines with raʔam, etc.

There are some dialectal words with original غ that I grew up hearing only pronounced as /q/ and only later found out were originally /ġ/:

yəqma ~ yəġma 'gulp'
dəqs ~ dəġs 'dugong (used as an insult)'

Right, ق can be /g/, /ǧ/, but usually either /q/ or /ġ/, not both.

Which leads to funny things like غريب 'strange(r)' being pronounced like قريب 'close, familiar, relative'.

All can pronounce the sound itself, but some speakers of the Sunni dialect switch it around with غ completely. So technically it's part of the native sound inventory, it just signifies غ instead of ق.

Nope, ḥalqūm and luqum. It's not native or inherited, so q stays q (I think Iraqi does the same)

I've heard both حلقوم and لقم