OMG THAT'S CRAZY! I'm Jewish and in Judaism we have MANY different cultures with Jews from everywhere. I've been to a lot of Jewish weddings with many different cultures. At the Syrian or Mizrahit weddings or in Mizrahi synagogues all I hear is "LELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELELE HABIBI MAZAL TOV AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAAAAAAAA"
When he said « khkhkh » i started laughing and found myself laughing in « khkhkh » which made me laugh even more in « khkhkh » that made me fart and mom told me « Where are your manners?! I’m gonna BI’ !! »
ظز اجت من ملح بالتركي لانو بايام حرب العاليمة الاولى الاتراك ما كانو يحطو ضرائب عل الملح فكانو التجار يهربو البضايع على انها ملح. فكانو يقولو لتبعات التفتيش على اي بضاعة انها طز يعني ملح (شغلة مالها قيمة لفرض ضريبة عليها) و بعدها صارت لاي شي مالو اي قيمة فعلية
The turkish etymology is bullshit.. The real etymology is the next: Tuz=fart in lebnon and morocco.. Tuz=teez(butt in Arabic)... Teez=deez(it means "unworthy" in classical Arabic)... "Deeza" is a word mentioned in the Quran (chapter 53 surat Al-najm, verse 22) and it means unfair or unworthy... So it is Arabic word not turkish.
Ahahaha omg you are awesome, Mark, I've never seen anybody capturing these cultural sounds so well. I laughed my ass off watching it 😂😂😂👏 I'm in love with your accents and personifications. عملك ممتاز ❤💜
About "Toz" there is even the single "A Toz" which charted on the French Top 200 Singles Chart... It is by Farid and Oussama featuring Aymane Serhani. So a trio of esteemed artists entertaining the French
Toz actually made it into Dutch slang. Cool to kinda get a feeling for what it means now! I am on a bit of a binge through your videos tonight and I'm having a blast!
My husband is from Baghdad and most of these I hear on a daily basis! But some are slightly different, like the “-ij” words...He says “gij”. it comes more from the throat. 😁❤️
This was great and you explain very well! It is helping me understand the things my relatives used to say better. Also, your little contextual examples of use in a conversation with the translations are really good to learn common conversational colloquial phrases. Thanks!
Well said Mark, thanks for the nice video, The same words and expressions we use in Jordan and Palestine, almost all identical, بلاد الشام تقريبا نسخة عن بعض بالحكي
'toz' comes from Turkish meaning salt. During the Ottoman occupation, Arabs used to trade salt for wheat. At Ottoman checkpoints, soldiers used to allow those having salt to pass and used to say " toz,toz.." meaning that the person has salt and isn't holding anything dangerous/banned. And now we use it as "who cares/whatever"
obviously it's not just lebanon, lebanon is a tiny country, literally every single one of these are used around the middle east, varying by country, some of the ones you mentioned are especially shami too but i've heard it everywhere :)
Hilarious ! I like very much your videos Mark... Btw I am historian & here's a historic note for you about "toz": it comes from the Ottoman Turkish "tüz" which was one of the cheapest staples that was free from taxes and safe from requisitioning by Jamal Pasha troops during WW1 in modern Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan. So people used to reply "tüz" to soldiers who asked them "what's in there you're carrying (on your mule or dromedary)?"
actually in the days of the Ottoman caliphate merchants had to stop for inspections in check points so they say to the officer when they have salt they say toz toz meaning it’s only salt .. salt was cheap .. so anything that doesn’t matter Arabs they say toz
Fun fact about toz: When the turks entered lebanon they didn't let any food enter mount lebanon unless they investigate except if it was salt. Salt in Turkish is toz. So when someone want to smuggle or just enter something to mount lebanon they would say . "Bro it's toz. Come on no need to investigate it's toz bruh" Eventually toz started to translate as nothing and to other meanings. Every lebanese whos been told that toz is swear word you have been mistaken.
My husband is from Yemen and he uses aaow aaow for a dog barking and he also uses tee tee for when microwave goes off. So we have this around our house. Listen for it to tee tee and tell me. Or I not hear tee tee yet. Lol.... I think its cute and laugh.
I used to see my uncle laugh like this. The same laugh sound you made. I also noticed 80-90% of our language is Arabi. Or whenever I see old words in Somali khamuus(dictionary). We share a lot in common akhi.
Did you ever know that the word طز comes from the Turkish word : Tuz ( which means salt) and it was used by traders after the salt lost its place in the market (it used to be as precious as gold) to insult or to make fun of the former rich salt tradesmen. This is the story that I heard about this strange but beautiful and precise expression . I am not sure whether it is right or no but I believe this story is so interesting so I wanted to share it ;)
I love your videos about Arabic. Would you consider doing a couple about grammar, or the differences between high standard Arabic and the various dialects? Šukran, anta mumtaz ❤
Kristina Kumpfhuber it’s totally different, you will be lost if you tried , for example The word Enter In standard arabic : udkhul In iraq : tob . in gulf countries: dish , In levant countries : foot in egypt : khush In morocco , tunisia, algeria: I don’t really know , but im sure they have their own version of the word . So stick with the standard arabic 😬
Here's the story I heard about the origin of Toz: First, Toz means Salt in turkish. In the Othoman era, there were no taxes on the salt trading.. so when the caravans pass by an Ottoman guards post, they'd say Toz, to tell the officials that all they have is salt, and thus no need to pay the taxes. The time passed, and the term started to gain a new meaning which encompasses protesting against the taxes authority and against authority in general. The ottomans are gone, but the word Toz stayed, and now it means "I don't give a fuck".
I am not learning Arabic and I have no intention to learn it but I like your videos. Turks also say "hav" for dogs and sometimes people call dogs "havhav" 🤣
Laetitia Bailey-Mortimer did you know that Arabic has a word to describe anything? For example there’s a word to describe the sound of ants! Crazy isn’t it?
Knave of Dogs the sound of ants is called: حفق HHafaq Harsh h and harsh k pronounced at the back of the throat. For birds there are words to describe numerous types of birds not just one. For example there’s a bird species called Hoopoes. The name of the sound is called: qarqara. The Q signifies a k pronounced at the back of the throat. In Arabic: قرقرة Most Arabs don’t even know these words because the Arabic language is unimaginably huge. People argue over just how big this language is. There are words to describe things you can’t even explain in other languages. There’s a word called: فرزدق Farazdaq You believe what it means. Farazdaq means: A man who is short, has a round, and mean looking/hateble face. There’s a word called: Armaa. Which means a man with too many fingers. There’s a word called Khansa’. This one is still used to this day as a name. It means: a woman who’s nose has a delayed rise which ends in a high tip. Believe it or not this is not a joke. Most Arabs don’t even know the extent of their languages power. What I gave you today is but a tiny glimpse of what this language has to offer. There are 300 words for lions, 150 for camels. 150 for swords. Hundreds upon hundreds of words to describe the same things but in specific ways. And don’t get me started on the colors. Arabs knew the color blue before any civilization in the world named it. For example in medieval Europe the sky and sea were said to be “green” because the color blue wasn’t in their dictionary yet. There are words to describe colors in a way that can make you imagine the image of the color in your head. For example they used to describe black people in a different way from what we use today. They used words that mean: pitch black green to describe certain black camels. I forgot the color names of original Arabic because they’re so complex but if you really wanna know I can do some research for you. The Arabic language of the Quran(origins Arabic) is almost inhuman. It seems to descriptive to be a human language. But it is human language and people can learn it and delve into its arcane mysteries. Everything I told you has proof and you can look it up. Now for some mysticism in case you’re into that sort of stuff. Warning: what you’re about to read is a description of my beliefs and does not represent the mainstream Islamic view. Most Muslims don’t even know about this so take it with a grain of salt. It could be true and it could be false. The biggest mystery in Islam that not many people know about is called: “God’s greatest name”. God has many names. Such as God(Allah in Arabic), the most merciful, the greatest, the most forgiving, peace, and so on. These names can be used when you’re praying to God for a certain thing. For example if you need money and you want God to help you, you say: Please God help me improve my financial status oh God the most generous of them all. And hopefully your prayers will be answered if you deserve it among other things. But there is a name of God that only prophets know about. That name is so great that if you ask God for anything and say that name he will do it for you no matter what you asked of him. You can even revive the dead with that name, Jesus used it when he revived people. That name is hidden from normal people like you and I but if you decide the Quran you might find it though this will never happen because it is very well hidden. That word has so much power it is said to have enough power to destroy the whole world and smash open dimensional gateways. One of the most terrifying things I heard is when I heard of the story of an evil sorcerer. That sorcerer was extremely powerful and had many extradimensional beings under his command. He lived in the time of one of the prophets. I’m not sure which ones but possibly David or Solomon. Again, don’t take my word for it, it could be a different prophet. But the story did happen and it happened a very long time ago. The sorcerer managed to find a way to decode the holy books and found God’s greatest name! He’s the only person in human history to achieve this(other than prophets.) He used it to break dimensional barriers between us and the Djinn(entities living in a higher dimension). This started a full scale war between humanity and the Djinn/demons of the other world. They started possessing and killing people. And people couldn’t hurt them because we live in a Lower dimension. The prophet then told the people that these things cannot hurt you if you have strong faith in God and not be afraid. And that’s how the humans beat these things and then the dimensional gate was closed. To help you understand the theory behind what I’m saying here: Draw a stick man on a piece of paper. Imagine if that stick man was a real person. That man can look to the right, left, up, down and that’s it. He can only see and touch what is in the Y and X axes because he lives in the 2nd dimension. You live in the 3rd dimension. You can see him and even sort of touch him but he can’t see you no matter how much he tries he can’t look outside the paper into you. This is an overly simplified version of how we are to the beings in the higher dimensions. But there are differences. For example our body is 3 dimensional but our soul is 4 dimensional. Our soul is bound to the 3rd dimension always. When the connection is severed we die or vice versa. If you ever have a nightmare where you see something scary and very vivid try very hard not to be scared. When you get scared they can hurt you and scare you even more. If you don’t get scared they can’t hurt you. God put a barrier between us and them to protect us. This barrier is unbreakable. Unless you start messing around with this stuff. Witches do that. They summon these things by doing horrible things that upset God and then they start witnessing glimpses of the otherworldly creatures that I told you about. Basically: if you don’t try to you won’t see these things. You might see them in your dreams though especially if someone cast a spell on you in which case you’d have to read some Quran and prayers to protect yourself. While the stories and things I told you can have flaws and mistakes consider it a bunch of stories rather than facts. Hope you’ve enjoyed these. Have a good day.
This guy is hilarious. I can’t stop laughing. Spanish speaking Arabs type jejejejej to say LoL when texting! Man keep doing what’s you’re doing, you’re going places!!!
Actually i heard tuz is from Turkish. In Turkish it means salt. During the Ottoman Empire the lowest tariff was on salt so when the Ottoman border patrol would ask the Arab traders what they transported, theyd answer "tuz", trying to pay the lowest tax possible. As the traders got more and more annoyed, the sound "tuz" become a sort of "leave me alone, I only have salt, fuck off". From there it might have began being used to tell someone to fuck off...but thats just a hypothesis I heard.
