Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Feb 25, 2010 09:43
14 yrs ago
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Arabic term
سبوبة
Arabic to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
ولا اظن ان رجلا في مثل سني أو وضعي مازال يبحث عن كرسي أو سبوبة..وحتي لو عرضوا عليّ كرسي الوزارة سأكون أنا الخسران اذا قبلته!.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | Dough |
Nadia Ayoub
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| 5 +1 | a gig |
Noha Kamal, PhD.
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| 5 +1 | gainful employment, career |
Fuad Yahya
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| 4 +1 | livelihood / sustenance |
elsayed fayed
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| 4 | money |
Heba Salah
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| 4 | Bread |
Ahmed Alami
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Change log
Mar 11, 2010 09:41: Nadia Ayoub Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
+2
37 mins
Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Egypt
Native in Arabic
Specializes in field
Egypt
Never lost for words!
Native in: Arabic
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, Italian to Arabic, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
119
Selected
Dough
Slang for money.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
11 mins
Heba Salah
Egypt
Egypt
Native in Arabic
Egypt
Freelance English Arabic Translator
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Lebanese, Iraqi, UAE, Standard-Arabian (MSA), Syrian, Kuwaiti, Egyptian, Palestinian, Saudi ) 
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English
money
a way to get rich
+1
24 mins
1 hr
Ahmed Alami
Morocco
Morocco
Native in Arabic
Morocco
Sworn Translator/Traducteur Assermenté
Native in: Arabic 
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, French to Arabic
Related KudoZ points
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4
Bread
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+1
6 hrs
Noha Kamal, PhD.
Native in Arabic
Works in field
Quality stands out...
Native in: Arabic
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, French to Arabic, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
40
+1
8 hrs
gainful employment, career
All the answers presented here are correct in that they all indicate one or another correct shade of meaning of this word. In this context, however, where the speaker points to his age, he is not exactly denying the pursuit of money per se, but rather the pursuit of gainful employment (working in the manner that a younger person would, in the pursuit of worldly gain and upward mobility). Everybody desires money, and everybody needs some form of sustenance, but a younger person is expected to to seek such things with a slightly different focus. This man is saying: I am not looking for a job for the sake of a salary and a career.
The term comes from the verb يتسبب, which means to earn income (from the noun سبب, which means "cause").
The term comes from the verb يتسبب, which means to earn income (from the noun سبب, which means "cause").
Peer comment(s):
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Lamis Maalouf
: Nice explanation. The word is used several times in the title and the body of this article to mean the same thing: A job opportunity or a source of income http://www.20at.com/20at/latest-news/1737.html
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