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How to say "straight ahead; frankly (Levantine Arabic) → straight talk, bluntly (Israeli slang)" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningstraight ahead; frankly (Levantine Arabic) → straight talk, bluntly (Israeli slang)

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

دُغْرِي

dughrīדע'רי

دغري

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

דוגרי

dugriدُوگْرِي

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

A loan twice over: Turkish doğru, 'straight, true', entered Levantine Arabic as dughrī, and Hebrew took it from there. In Arabic it is both a direction ('straight ahead') and a manner ('straight up'); Hebrew kept the plain-talking sense — לדבר דוגרי.

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In a phrase

اِمْشِي دُغْرِي
imshī dughrīאמשי דע'רי

walk straight ahead

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