How to say "oh, my life (Arabic term of endearment, Israeli slang)" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningoh, my life (Arabic term of endearment, Israeli slang)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
يَا عُمْرِي
yā ʿumrīיא עמרי
يا عمري
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
יא עומרי
ya omriيَا أُومْرِي
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
ع-م-ر'Oh my life' — famous as the title of Umm Kulthum's Enta Omri, 'you are my life'. It has no useful Hebrew relative (the lookalike עומר, 'sheaf', is unrelated), but Israeli slang borrowed the whole tender exclamation regardless.
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In a phrase
يَا عُمْرِي، تَعَالَ
yā ʿumrī, taʿālaיא עומרי, תעאלoh my life, come here
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