How to say "to finish, be free of (Arabic) → enough!, done! (Israeli slang)" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningto finish, be free of (Arabic) → enough!, done! (Israeli slang)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
khalaṣח'לץ
خلص
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
khalasخَالَاس
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
خ-ل-صHebrew root
ח-ל-ץKlein compares this root to Hebrew ח-ל-ץ of חילוץ, 'rescue', and חלוץ, 'pioneer' — the one who is 'drawn out' first. If the comparison holds, khalaṣa 'to be freed, finished with' and ḥalats 'to draw out, extract' spring from the same old idea of getting clear of something; not every scholar is convinced, but خ↔ח and ص↔צ line up cleanly. Israeli slang uses חלס as the all-purpose 'enough, done, that's it.'
Related Hebrew word:חלץkhalatsخَالَاتْس
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo's 'done, enough, that's it!' has a long ā: khalāṣ.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
A different word: Darija says ṣāfi for 'done, enough, that's it'.
In a phrase
enough already, man!
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