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اسكراج

English translation: scratch card

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Arabic term or phrase:سكراتش
English translation:scratch card
Entered by: lhcm

16:48 Mar 12, 2009
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Telecom(munications)
Arabic term or phrase: اسكراج
for prepaid mobile phone service, to add more credit to the account, we need recharge cards.
بطاقة الشحن
بطاقة التعبئة
بطاقة إعادة الشحن
Does اسكراج mean "recharge card"? Is this word used to mean "recharge card" or something else?

thanks in advance!
lhcm
Local time: 21:48
scratch
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zax
Local time: 09:48
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شكرا جزيلا لكم جميعا
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1 +4scratch
zax
5لوتارية ، ورقة يانااصيب
nevine ibrahim
4Scratch
Spiridon
Summary of reference entries provided
سكراتش
Saleh Dardeer

Discussion entries: 5





  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +4
scratch


Explanation:
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zax
Local time: 09:48
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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شكرا جزيلا لكم جميعا

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bubo Coroman (X): http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&q=mobile top-up scratch ca...
13 mins
  -> Thanks, Deborah
agree  Stephen Franke: "Arabish" expression - In many countries in the ME, subscribers to mobile phone services (i.e., Jawwal, Mobili in KSA) buy time-cards; the user must scratch off an affixed label for the data to enter and activate the newly-purchased minutes of service.
43 mins
  -> Thanks, Stephen
agree  Alaa Zeineldine: Quite possible, like many other arabized terms used colloquially. The word is then probably اسكراتش
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Alaa
agree  Saleh Dardeer: I am pretty sure that a Sudanese translator in a forum said that recharge cards are called in Sudan "سكراتش" because they scratch the card to know the number of recharge. SEE my reference below!
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Saleh
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
لوتارية ، ورقة يانااصيب


Explanation:
a card that has a covered spot that is to be scratched and to reveal whether a prize has been won or not

nevine ibrahim
United States
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3 days 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Scratch


Explanation:
The phonetics of the word in Arabic is exactly the pronunciation of Scratch in english

Spiridon
Brazil
Local time: 10:48
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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Reference comments


6 hrs
Reference: سكراتش

Reference information:
In this search, you would find the word is commonly used to refer to recharge cards in Sudan

http://www.google.com/search?q=اسكراتش سودان&btnG=Search&hl=...

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Note added at 6 hrs (2009-03-12 23:46:28 GMT)
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At last, I got the link from which I knew this information. Unfortunately, it appears in the search results, but when I try to open the link I got a message that such a site contains malwares and may harm my computer.

It was a discussion on how to translate "prepaid call card"; you can see these words in the search results

و فاتنى اننا فى السودان نختصرها _ حتى العامة منا _ بقولنا أسكراتش لأن اول توجيهات استخدام البطاقة تطلب منك ان تكشط
scratch ..... prepaid call card

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q...


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q...

Good Luck!

Saleh Dardeer
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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