Oct 23, 2008 16:46
15 yrs ago
Arabic term

ya rajel or ya ragel

Non-PRO Arabic to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Please tell me what the arabic translation for "ya rajel" means in english
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PRO (2): Aymene Zermane, Mohsin Alabdali

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Proposed translations

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47 mins
Selected

What you don't say! Are you kidding me?

I agree with the above answerers of course. It means "Hey man" and it often means just that. But very often (most often even, I'd say), it's used in the sense of "What you don't say" or "Are you kidding me", when someone says something you find surprising or hard to believe. So depending on your context, that may be it.
Peer comment(s):

agree Mohsin Alabdali : miah miah
4 hrs
what does that mean? // I get it now :-) Thanks!
agree Fathy Shehatto : It means your answer is 100% right :-)
5 hrs
Aaah! مية مية :-)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
27 mins

Come on man! or Oh! man!

Come on man! or Oh! man!
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31 mins

Hey, man! rajel = man; ya = hey, you, yoo

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3 hrs

Oh man!

This arabic dialectal expression is used to call a man or to tell the man we speak to that he is saying something worng or in a discussion where there is two different opinions and each one wants to convince the other intimately. We use use as well as an expression to get the attention of a man.
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