[jbovlaste] Re: Ramadan etc

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 16:05:11 Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> 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'm thinking of "idbaira", where the "baira" part comes from Turkish "Bayram", 
which has been borrowed into Bosnian.

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 15:36:16 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> There was no response for Ramdana for Ramadan.  Does that mean
> it's ok as a fu'ivla?

It is. The "d" isn't exactly a "d"; it's an emphatic "d", which in Turkish 
turned into "z". However, "ramzana" is not a valid Lojban word.

Pierre