Other English words that people use to express their adoration for someone include babe, baby, beautiful, buddy, cupcake, cutie-pie, , dear, , honey, pet, princess, sugar, sweet pea, sweetie, or sweetie-pie. in several occasions when i was in the beginning of a marriage project (and it is a project) i tried to just forget about all the financial stuff , but i found out that the groom to be felt suspicious , he said something like , why would you give all this up if something wasn't wrong with you , so even when the girl is trying to support the guy & help him with the financial details , he tends to be such a jerk /: lesson learned : you have to be a materialistic beast in order to be respected by Egyptian guys :). Marwan: Wi Ana kaman bahibik gedan ya Menna! An upright slab of stone carved and inscribed with religious or historical texts and representations. Awesome. Marrying me did not affect her female independence at all. This kind of relationship does wonders for your target language skills. Ask MetaFilter is a question and answer site that covers nearly any question on earth, where members help each other solve problems. Omg! And you can also say to mean just "hello." Welcome; hello: (marHaban) Response: (marHaban bk) can be used in much the same way as , and it has a more colloquial pronunciation of "marHaba." I thought that when I move here in California that my family would learn to be liberal and open minded but that didnt happen; instead they arrange for me to get married right after I moved to California. "Chou" (cabbage) is the French equivalent of "sweetheart". It's the 30- year saga of a mother and daughter; the story of a . Haha, it's really easy to not take into consideration one's culture. I really love how you narrowed it down to bits and pieces with such accuracy like youre an actual citizen. mozza (): Sexy, babe. you hide the girls faces in the picture [and i respect that] , but when i shared your blog in Facebook it got the image with the faces , you must be having the original image embedded here somewhere, too bad u had such in experience but it's not really the way it is all the time. Rouhi and Hayati should only be used in romantic contexts only. Similar thing happened to me in Morocco. Her family, much like mine and most US parents with 20-something kids, approached our marriage with the idea that - if you two are getting married, you must be prepared for it financially and be prepared for the independence that comes with that. Yet you cannot generlise either. You summed it all up in one word, "Business Transaction!". Habibi and Habibti are not only used in a romantic context. It changed me in so many ways. Unfortunately, parents usually mis-use their rights of giving advice. I know this post is old but hopefully I'll still get some replies and some positive feedback. http://www.aljazem.com/. Your story more or less reflects everything wrong about the Egyptian culture when it comes to marriage. I really enjoyed reading this. He actually did not want me to move to America and asked me if I could live in Algeria with him. I have this list of "My dearest Heart," "Dearest Mine," "my love," "my dear," "my darling," "my pet" that I need to quote in my academic paper (the Japanese author is listing possible pet names [1] that his Japanese friend could use to speak with his new wife plus the ones he himself uses for his fiance), but when I tried looking up Japanese translations for them, I only found a few . I have a Lebanese Catholic acquaintance born and raised like my bf here in the West married to a Filipino womanhe told me he has a bad relationship with his mom for marrying the Filipino lady.but they seem happy & they've been married for 8 years now and have 3 children His family has never been to Lebanon to meet the rest of the family on his side though. I have been in a relationship with an American man 30 years, and i am an Egyptian Muslim girl 25, we really love each other for more than a year and a half now, we met abroad and he came to Egypt to meet my family who were so rough on him, just as you said they need a flat a shabka and a lot of money, they want him to relocate and leave his job abroad to come and live in Egypt, and turn Muslim,, my guy agreed to do all that because he really loves me, but we cant find a good job for him in Caior, he is a professional English teacher. A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection. Cinnamon 17. I dont care how fluent you say you are, you will eventually experience this. So you cant even kiss her until youre married? Hiii Donovan that was an amazing article I enjoyed reading it alot, I'm an Egyptian girl and you were right about most of the things that you mentioned, but there was some other things that depends on the family and I think you mentioned that :), I've been dating this Egyptian girl for 2 years now and once we decided to spent our life together her family says I need to do the custom of buying her an apartment. I aught to point out though that we Egyptian girls do love our gold but not as much as diamonds :) cheers and keep up the excellent writing. Here the use of Honey is different from its use in English. Anyway, I loved the story! It was a heartbreaking end and one that neither of us wanted but in the end it wasnt our decision to make. Academy Award Nominations: 11, including Best Actress--Debra . He has never met me, I dropped her off home one night after a night out drinking at the bar, her brother got very mad and told her parents about that. hop u found love and happens some where else. despite that, God bless you! Someoen give me some advice on what to do next. . We have promised to never let the negative and outdated traditions of my own country and her own country to get in the way of each other. Is there any way I can get her back I still txt her and all but its not the same, we are talking like we are normal like we never had anything. I enjoyed this mate.. Sed: A festival of rejuvenation that renewed the powers of a pharaoh, it was usually but not always held in their 30th year of rule. The word "caro" or "cara" is one of the most common terms of endearment. They expected him to sit with my father and have "that talk" about his future intentions. These are appropriately used not only by family members and friends, but also by adults who might not know the child's name, such as store clerks or nurses. I mean, you mentioned at the top that this is your own personal experience and whatnot, and I must admit it's wonderfully written, however I don't agree with most of it. With respect to the Muslim man marrying a non-Muslim woman from among the People of the Book (Jews and Christians); Prophet Muhammads wife Maria was a Copt from Egypt. Now, I do not care about this nor do I care to have one, but he kept this in the dark from me. Still you fill find people from upper classes still sticking to requsting Gold (or dimonds actually) and insisting on lots of materialistic arrangements. n no it wont be like two families getting involved .. just me n him against the world! What do Egyptians do if the groom-go-be's friends dislike the bride-to-be? Thanks Donovan for the interesting information. I married my husband after dating online for one month! How would I introduce my family to these people? I said no, so that is why he is coming to America. I have learned so much from him, and he calls me his son. Being a Muslim, I found it a nice place to live. And I meant popping in current Egyptian dialect (mainly Arabic). When the time comes though, for us to meet each other's families, for sure it will be difficult for us. If the man does not wish to raise his children as Christians/Jews, or does not care much about religion one way or the other, then she might ask herself why she would marry someone like that, unless of course, she is of the same mind. Although this frustration is a huge motivator for me to reach the next level of competency. Little cabbage (French) Petit chou. At the end of the very long discussion the girls father concluded by simply saying Tayib, ana mawafi2 (Okay, I agree). I copied the phrase "all my love" from the Egyptian Book of the Dead in a Valentine's Day card for my mother, years ago. I worry that I am working very hard everyday while he is in Algeria contributing nothing. Egyptian girls have no emotions they just look for another daddy Who can buy her whatever she wants and act as a magic lamb for her dreams. We put pen to paper about my present and future financial situation including debts and assets, details about how much the engagement ring and ceremony would cost, the wedding and gold, the honeymoon and then of course, where wed be living and how much that would cost. and I can tell that from the way you talk about your girl and how respectful you were to her traditions.. Did she call you batta hhh , its like calling you (sweetie) so don't worry she loved you! . Also I wanted to ask you were you were living in Cairo and why you were wearing a "Galabeya" ? At her wedding she cried her eyes out while her family took pictures. Arabic is a sentimental and a beautiful language, we call our loved ones as our soul and lives. Babylicious - A combination of the word "baby" and "delicious." It is often used as a cute pet name for a hot guy. So my situation lent itself an implication that I am most likely far more naive and contained in regards to being in tune with "the world". I say all this to emphasize how little I could be considered as a 'worldly' guy, multi-cultural, all those similar phrases. Dude, i feel very sorry for you man. They expect me to pay for everything! My family criticized the hell out of me for my decision to marry this girl. What makes a great difference though is the social background. We did not want to be pushed into marriage just because the culture does not allow "dating without engaged parties". And most likely the only way to do that is if the girl agrees to leave the country. This is really funny. There were moments when all my vocabulary failed me and I couldn't tell him how I felt about something. But as any relationship blooms, I make sure I give my all to my wife and make sure she is taken care of, shown respect, and most of all knows of my complete devotion to her. I remember sitting in an Egyptian coffee shop once trying to come up with some lovey-dovey stuff to put in this letter for her and having the young Egyptian waiters teach me poetry to make it sound more romantic. You can imagine the thoughts running through my mind. I would now come to the conclusion that her family is much more progressive and completely surprised me in how much I have learned from them in terms of complete acceptance of outside cultures, religions, and lifestyles. For private online classes, mail me Info@SpeakLikeAnEgyptian.com, or WhatsApp me on 00 20 10 965 340 33In this video I will be teaching you how to express . Mi tesoro (my treasure) is often used in the same context as "my darling" or "honey" in English. I told them that it wouldn't bother me at all, but if religion really mattered, I don't think he'd be interested in dating me anyway. Our relationship was tumultuous. I can count on one hand the amount of times we were truly alone for a brief moment. The girl you were with was obviously from an extremely conservative family I'm assuming as it would've been much more flexible if she was going to an international university or from a more westernized social group in Egypt where dating is tolerated and everyone I know has had long term relationships without the need to meet the parents until you're serious (keep in mind that I'm actually still in college too). The modern name for a collection of spells (about 200) that enabled the dead to travel through the underworld and enter the afterlife. but aside from this, how about you blog about your stay there and how was your life like, how did you find the people there, what did you do when you 2 got harassed especially when you were on a date. Egyptians often used the words brother and sister as terms of endearment when addressing their spouses, leading some early nineteenth century Egyptologists to speak of brother-sister marriages.