so i was bored and started to wiki some common last names from people of the subcontinent (Ahmed got me started with this pointless Mongol debate) and I started with the last name "Khan" and then when I looked up another common last name, Khawaja, I noticed this trolling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khawaja

first time I've ever witnessed REAL wiki trollin .. pretty weak stuff

WOOAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

Khawaja in Arabic (or at least Egyptian) means "foreigner".

thing is that the Muslims sorta adopted this pseudo-caste system in the subcontinent that they got from the Hindus (Hindus have a real one that actually means something) so you get a lot of popular "last names" or "caste names" ...

like this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Shaikh

sheikh isn't a last name amongst Arabs though .. its a title ...

It is. Just not common. But you'll probably find one.

yah i noticed Haddad is actually a common last name amongst the Arabs ... and Khalifa too ...

Common in the gulf.

my egyptian arabic tutor is a haddad

Le Caire wrote:Khawaja in Arabic (or at least Egyptian) means "foreigner".

so Khawaja = Ajmi?

Yeah. It's very common in old Egyptian movies...they would refer to the Greeks and Italians who live in Egypt as Khwaga (Khawaja).

so Khawaja's might be Greek??

And look how Marwa ruined the thread

Anyone who is like European we called Khawaga.

Btw Haddad means carpenter in Arabic lol

doesn't hadadd mean metal or something?

Hadeed means metal. My bad, hafar doesn't mean carpenter. idk what it means

u noobs distinguish urselfs from the gulf "khaleeji" Arabs??

i know egyptian Arabic dialect is weaker than Gulf dialect tho ... no wonder Marwa needs a tutor lol

LMFAO. You MORON.

Egyptian dialect is THE best. This isn't opinion. It's a FACT. you could actually understand it. And it doesn't spun retarded. Khaleeji or N. African Arabs learn Egyptian Arabic. Not the other way around.

I also hope that you aren't stupid enough to think that the khaleeji Arabic is the one used in the Quran. It's not even close!

no one really speaks Qur'anic fusha Arabic

Exactly. All Arabs (educated ones) speak fus'ha Arabic (not like Quran's but close). That's understood by all educated Arabs. Dialect wise, Egypt's is the best and understood by all Arabs.

i heard ur jeem is weak

OK Egypt is the best, happy?

We call it Geem. What do you mean by weak?

That doesn't make me happy since many people already know it is lol.

Bro don't judge if you don't speak the language. Doesnt make sense.

this noob lol

Jeem

not "G"eem ... believe me man, I know about Egyptian Arabic ... I only have problems with the Jeem lol ... the same letter exists in Urdu so I know what I'm talking about ... correct way to pronounce it is Jeem no "geem"


but im not gonna argue over a single letter like u, who is prepared to fight over anything

It doesn't matter. We call it Geem. There should be no problem.

Egyptian Arabic - J sound = G sound most of the time