[jbovlaste] Re: Ramadan etc

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In a message dated 9/1/2009 16:23:59 Eastern Daylight Time, arj@nvg.org writes:


> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:36:16PM -0700, A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> > 
> > > > Eid ul Fitr (Festival of the end of the fast - end of Ramadan): 
> > > > famsezyfantynunsla
> > > 
> > > "end-self-prevent-celebration"?  "Celebration of preventing one's end"?  I
> > > think something like "{caurfamnunsla}" ("Celebration of the end of lacking")
> > > might be a better translation, though it could undoubtedly be improved.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, that should have been  
> > sezyfantyfamnunsla i.e. celebration of the end of self-restraint.  Are you suggesting 
> > caurfamnunsla is preferable because its shorter - or for 
> > another reason?
>
> This veljvo could equally well refer to Holy Thursday (the end of Christian Lent), and the aftermath of a number of fasts in Judaism. Given the specificity of this concept, I really think it would be better served as a fu'ivla. And given the importance of Arabic in Islam, it would not be a breach of cultural neutrality to borrow the term from Arabic.


I think a cmevla would be still better.

stevo