#117 Ya habibi! StreetWise Hebrew gets affectionate
Streetwise Hebrew
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๐๏ธ 23 February 2016
โฑ๏ธ 9 minutes
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Summary
The root "het-bet-bet," which gives us the wordย "habibi," is all aboutย affection. Host Guy Sharett explains what it's got to do with gay Tel Avivi speech and Ashdod in the 80's.
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New words & expressions:
Ya habibi โ Oh my darling โ ืื ืืึผืืึผื
Habibi - Mate, dude (addressing a man) - ืืืืื
Lird โ Good looking guy โ ืืืจื
Habib/a (Arabic) โ Darling โ ืืึผืืึผ/ื
Haviv/a โ Pleasant โ ืืืื/ื
Haya haviv โ It was nice โ ืืื ืืืื
Acharon acharon haviv โ Last but not least โ ืืืจืื ืืืจืื ืืืื
Hu hovev tango โ He likes tango โ ืืื ืืืื ืื ืื
Hu hovev mevugarot โ He likes older girls โ ืืื ืืืื ืืืืืจืืช
Hi hovevet ktinim โ She likes younger guysย โ ืืื ืืืืืช ืงืืื ืื
Zamarim hovevim โ Amateur singers โ ืืืจืื ืืืืืื
Ani dvarim ka'ele mehabev โ I like these kinds of things โ ืื ื ืืืจืื ืืืื ืืืื
Lehabev โ To like โ ืืืื
Lehithabev al โ To become beloved โ ืืืชืืื ืขื
Hu hithabev al kulam โ He became beloved by everybody โ ืืื ืืชืืื ืขื ืืืื
Tahbiv โ Hobby โ ืชืืืื
Hiba โ Affection โ ืืืื
Shem/Kinuy hiba โ Pet name โ ืฉื/ืืื ืื ืืืื
Hubb (Arabic) โ Love โ ืืืึผ
Habub/a โ Sweetiepie โ ืืึผืืึผ/ื
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Playlist and clips:
Omer Adam & Arisa โ Tel Avivย (Lyrics)
Lahakat Ha-nachal โ Achron Havivย (Lyrics)
Arik Einstein โ Agadat Desheย (Lyrics)
Elissa โ Halat Hubb
Ilan โ Dai Lach Habuba
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is TLC1. |
| 0:05.0 | street-wise. |
| 0:10.0 | Street-wise. |
| 0:12.0 | Hebrew. Shalom, it's me Guy from Streetwise Hebrew. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm back from Africa, it was amazing. |
| 0:18.0 | Addis Abba, Johannesburg, Cape Town Durbin, |
| 0:21.0 | I'm going to say something about it in my partying monologue, but it's so good to be back. Tis that a keel come a little bit miss a beep |
| 0:35.0 | oh simply high high |
| 0:38.0 | bale la why why the sachter |
| 0:40.0 | tell a bibis Televibia, Televibia Yachabibi, Televibi, |
| 0:45.0 | Televibi, Ome Adam and Arisa, |
| 0:49.0 | this is a song written for the Televiv gay pride parade, Parade 2013 and it uses some words in the gay Tel Aviv |
| 0:56.4 | jargon like Lyrdim Lyrd Lyrd you Reshdala means a good looking guy in gay lingo and today we're talking about |
| 1:05.1 | habebebe or habebebe as you say it in Hebrew. The word in Arabic is |
| 1:10.6 | habeeb and the e at the end is mine so my habeib my darling just like in |
| 1:17.2 | Hebrew haviva yeah what is yeah we talked about this particle on episode number 16, you can check it out. |
| 1:25.0 | So in Arabic if someone is calling a guy called Tamir, he'd say, |
| 1:29.0 | Yatamir, something like, hey Tamir. |
| 1:32.0 | So, yeah, habebebe that's the vocative oh my darling the word |
| 1:37.8 | chaviv exists in Hebrew hiet bet yud bet it means likable. When it's an adjective, haya, haviv. It was, |
| 1:47.6 | haviv means it was nice. If you say it about a date, hmm, just okay. Or if you say it about a steak, |
| 1:54.1 | steak, |
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