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by Arisztid on July 22nd, 2007
Alrighty. Here are some in Rromanes, the language of the Rromani, also called "Gypsy".
Shukar = beautiful
Nais tuke = thankyou
Latcho dives = Hello (good day)
Kushti = good
Baxtalo = good luck
Amal/ amalin = friend (male/ female)
So, there are a few.
Latcho ratti! (good night)
by boston on October 8th, 2008
nein
by Brian I on July 23rd, 2007
Suerte is Spanish for luck. ¡Que suerte! means That's lucky! or How lucky!
by hijklmno on July 23rd, 2007
Some Scots words:
numptie - stupid person
gallumph - stupid person
baw heid - stupid person
mickle/muckle - big thing /small thing ("many a mickle mak a muckle" = "lots of small things make a big thing")
wee - small
bairn - child
ben - inside ("ben the hoose" - "inside the house")
gallus - cocky, daring
glaikit - stupid
high heid yin - important person
crabbit - bad-tempred
drookit - wet, sodden
kirk - church
shoogle - shake
skelp - smack
clattie - dirty, disgusting
canny - careful
Just a few. :)
(Oh and thanks for the comments on my photos!)
by DreAnna on July 22nd, 2007
Feuer..german..fire :)
by Zombies on July 22nd, 2007
Japanese:
Gomen-nasai [Go-men-nah-s-eye] (I'm very sorry, or 'excuse me' in the 'whoops, my bad' sense of the word.)
Arigato-Gozaimus [Are-eh-got-oh-go-z-eye-muhs] (My spelling sucks, but it basically means 'Thank you very much.')
Onegai [Oh-knee-g-eye] (Please.)
Spanish:
Leche [Leh-cheh] (Milk)
Okay, I'm tired, I'll add more later.
by MG1942 Has a Life Penguin on July 22nd, 2007
Vorbei: German for past or over.
by Krys on July 22nd, 2007
Je t'aime - I Love You - French (oops, more than one word, huh?)
by KevinW42 on July 22nd, 2007
Luftkissenfahrzeug, German for hovercraft.
by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on July 22nd, 2007
bad = bad in Farsi.
by Surgeon General on July 22nd, 2007
Japanese:
kunoichi = female ninja
tabemono = food
otanjyoubi = birthday
oshiri = butt :P
yokozuna = the highest rank of sumo wrestler
I felt lame posting just one <:'D
by steelhamster@aol.com on July 23rd, 2007
I know some swear words in Polish and Greek...
Polish
Speirdjala = P*ss off
Chuj = C*ck
Greek
Pezavengi = Your mother sleeps with men for money
Pushdi = derogatory name for a gay person
More on request ;-)
by Babycakes on July 22nd, 2007
culo..spanish for butt. I think that's how to spell it.
by Koz - Passion Perseverance Patience on July 22nd, 2007
Ono - Delicious in Hawaiian
by Liimatainen09 on November 29th, 2008
Finnish:
Kiitos - Thank you or thanks
anteeksi - sorry or excuse me
mitä kuuluu? - How are you?
susi - wolf
kotka - eagle
talo - house
koti - home
maito - milk
kala - fish
sininen - blue
vihreä - green
keltainen - yellow
punainen - red
musta - black
valkoinen - white
ruskea - brown
oranssi - orange
yksi - one
kaksi - two
kolme - three
tänään - today
maanantai - Monday
tiistai - Tuesday
keskiviikko - Wednesday
torstai - Thursday
perjantai - Friday
lauantai - Saturday
sunnuntai - Sunday
and i can go on and on...but ill stop now:D
by Lovehearts on February 15th, 2008
Ananas - 'pineapple' in French.
I dare you not to have fun saying it.
by Passion555 on September 9th, 2007
Japanese:
itchi-number one
ni-number two
san- number three
shi - number four
go - number five
by I'm a ginger on July 22nd, 2007
ciao- hello/bye in italian
bella- beautiful in italian
vita bella- beautiful life
bestrafe mich- punish me in german
ade- bye in german
by suomynonA on July 22nd, 2007
(German) mochten sie ein kaffee oder tee?
(French) voulez vous un cafe ou the?
(Japanese) kohi ka kocha ikaga desuka?
(Mandarin) ni xiang he kafei haishi cha ma?
by Someone on July 22nd, 2007
No = No in most languages that I know mean no in XD (Spanish, French, Japanese, etc)
by Stillme FBB on July 22nd, 2007
Whatever, that's teenage for, who cares what you think!
by Razzle-Fratchit on March 15th, 2009
In Thai:
Laung-Tao (literally "Under Foot") = shoe
Laung-Tao-Saai-Nai-Bahn (literally "Under Foot Put-on Inside House") = slipper.
by Gnome of Kevonia is a Cheerwine junkie on December 2nd, 2008
videojuego - video game in Spanish
by shady on December 2nd, 2008
rio is spanish for river
by Anonymous on November 22nd, 2008
Chinese:
nee-you
hao-good
xing xing-star
da-big
xiao-small
wang-emporer/king
French:
bonjour-good afternoon
rouge-red
vert-green
hibou-owl
by Boycott on November 7th, 2008
Solh means Peace in Persian/-
by Peetee on April 3rd, 2008
In Z80 machine code, the number 128 means "add a and b together and store the answer in a". The short form of this is simply "add a,b".
Also, in Z80, the number 201 means "Return". (In this case, "Return" means "Take the 16 bit number off the stack and store it in the Program Counter Register, then increase the Stack pointer by two.")
by Voodoo on February 15th, 2008
Ωτορινολαρυγγολογος (otorinolarigoLOgos) - Greek for ears, nose and throat specialist!
by koldkanuck on February 15th, 2008
far,redneck for fire.
by Castrate on August 25th, 2007
масло (russian for oil)
by Laurie on July 23rd, 2007
Baka=idiot in Japanese :) Watashi wa baka desu = "I'm a idiot" in Japanese. Yata = "All right!" in Japanese.
by MrBLT needs to be contained on July 23rd, 2007
In Lao - blactan means bracelet
by AntigoneRising on July 23rd, 2007
Hindi - Namaste (Hello)
by peterpam on July 22nd, 2007
Mochen (pronounced mock-en) which means pig in Welsh, tup is stupid therefore "mochen tup" is not what you would want to hear!
by Cannabis its just a plant on July 22nd, 2007
Cannabis
English to Greek:
καννάβεις
by johnnydrama on July 22nd, 2007
Macher. Yiddish for "bigshot" or "toughguy"
by Ender is back.. And slightly confused. on July 22nd, 2007
"Aussehen"
German for "to look like."
by SBTroy on April 1st, 2009
Kay said as K-a-i means what in Marathi mainly spoken in Mumbai, India.
by engineer is Terminator on March 17th, 2009
Musée = Museum in french.
by --------- on March 15th, 2009
neige is snow in french
by June on December 2nd, 2008
Kawaii = Cute
But I bet you already knew that. :)
by parleamonculmateteestmalade on December 2nd, 2008
Pendejadas.
by Jennifer on November 18th, 2008
petit gateau = little cake/cupcake in French
pronounce pet-eat got-oh
by boredgal88 on November 18th, 2008
tequiro is spanish for i love you.
by chopsticks on November 16th, 2008
Tack sä mycket! = Thank you very much in Swedish :o)
by Schonberg on November 15th, 2008
Autorita - Authority
Baletka - Ballet dancer
Baterka - Torch
Dispozice - Disposition
Stodola - Barn
(Czech)
by Anonymous on September 21st, 2008
ASANTE--Thank you, in SWAHILI.
RAFIKI---Friend, in SWAHILI
by yahoo lecca le palle on August 14th, 2008
here is some italian!
vaffanculo - vah fahn cooloh - have a nice day!
che tette belle che c'hai - keh tetteh belleh keh chai - what a beautiful day it is.
mangiami - manjamee - eat
che cazzo vuoi? - keh catso vwoy - what do you want?
i am native from italy ....in ogni senso.....in every sense
by Indigo- in the library with the revolver on July 31st, 2008
"Eedeeteh vy k chertu!"
Means
"You're a wonderful person!"
A whole phrase!
(Russian)
by Roselynn...unregistered text offender... on July 31st, 2008
BESAME.
Kiss me.
In Spanish.
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Comments
Mahsi' choo (is that right)
by travel breeze on July 22nd, 2007
I am just learning to rokker the Chib and I only know a little in one dialect. Most of us in America cannot rokker the Chib well. Those that do are blessed.
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There are well over 20 dialects.
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I do not know Mahsi... I sounded it out and the closest I know is "mishto" (mishto avilin is "you are welcome") or "mush" (guy).
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Choo I cannot think of anything I know that sounds like it but it would be spelled "chu", I think.
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I can tell you that when I say it it sounds like it is from a Rromani dialect.
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Rromanes is so unstandardized that it is very difficult to get any consensus. It has only been written down for a few decades and that gazillion dialect thing is a bit of a problem.
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My father never wrote it down... he was from a generation before writing it was common. I have half remembered words from him and am relearning the Chib myself. (Rromani Chib is "Romani lung" and is another term for our language).
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Can you tell me where "Mahsi choo" is from, as in Country or Clan
by Arisztid on July 23rd, 2007
My father spoke Rromanes (more than one dialect), Romanian, Hungarian, English, and Spanish. Rromanes is also called "Romani", "Romany", and "Romani/Romany Chib"
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I did not inherit my father's gift of language.
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Oh another thing, due to the very recent writing down of this language, it is NOT standardized. You are going to find an incredible variation of spelling of most words. For instance, Gadje (non-Rromani) is said "gorgio", "gadjenska", "gorger", "gaje", kadje, gauje, oh I cannot remember all of them. Depends upon the Clan.
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Rromani is spelled: Rromani, Romani, Rromany, Romany, Rrom, Rom, Rroma, Roma. Rroma is generally plural but can be singular, Rromani is generally singular but can be plural.
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Confused yet?
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I figure in a few years (ok, decades) there shall be standardization. We are working to find a way to write it down (there are instances where English does not have a sound to equal a Rromanes sound so it is hard).
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Now that is more than you wanted to know. :P
by Arisztid on July 23rd, 2007
Mahsii Choo is actually the Gwich'in Athabascan (Alaska Native) word for Thank You.
by taya89 on July 16th, 2010
Whats I love you in Gypsy-language?
by LadywithdirtyHands on August 25th, 2010