The book shows assets of slang words, and their meanings, reviewing more than 5300 of the words back to the origin in speaking Arabic, Sumerian, Aramaic, Syriac, Turkish, Farsi, French, Italian, English and Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Coptic and Ethipian and Sanskrit. It highlights cross-cultural interactions that produced the words. An entertaining read.

Subject: Popular Arabic language studies - slang words.

Publisher: Arab Scientific Publishers, 2010

Pages / Other: 303 pp

Author: Khatab, Abdul Fatah

Language: Arabic