Friday, April 22, 2011

Refresher: Student-Spouse mixes in Arabic too

So I asked Senda if she would like to drink some Qahwa(h) made from roasted organic beans to help her wake up.  She said she would, and then I tried to spell the word while I was making it.  It turns out it's a feminine word with te-marbutah (h) at the end:

We drink strong قَهْوَة  in the morning to wake up for work.

(Mnemonic: Imagine you go out to the barn and milk a coughing white heifer (Qah+wa+h/t) and instead of milk coming out of the utters, coffee comes out instead.  Qahwah is coffee.)

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