Baldness = Half-price

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Žḥá d-aləṣláʕ

'Žḥá was bald'

• Žḥá Personal name
• d- copula
• aləṣláʕ 'bald'

Baʕadén iwín n íšf yəʕádd i-wa təzzámən u izəm-ís

'Then, one day he went to the barber and he shaved him.'

• baʕadén 'then'
• iwín n íšf 'one day'
• yəʕádd 3sg.m.pf. 'to go'
• i- dative particle
• wa təzzámən 'barber' litterally 'he (of) shavings' or something similar.
• u 'and'
• izəm-ís 3sg.m.pf. 'to shave' with 3sg.m. indirect object suffix.

Baʕadén ikkə́mməl yəfkí-s ənnúṣ n əlbarát

'Then he finished and he gave him half of the money'

• ikkə́mməl 3sg.m.pf. 'to finish' < Ar. kammala
• yəfk-ís 3sg.m.pf. 'to give' with 3sg.m. indirect object suffix
• ənnúṣ 'half' <ar. nuṣf 'half' in dialectal arabic assimilated to nuṣṣ  (thanks Bulbul & Lameen)
  
• n genitiveparticle
• əlbarát 'money' < Dialectal Arabic barä 'money' < Turkish Para (thanks Lameen)

Baʕadên in-ís wa təzzámən: af-iwá təfki-dík nnúṣ n əlḥəqq-ənnúk?

'Then, the barber said to him: why did you give me half of my payment?'

• in-ís 3sg.m.pf. 'to say'  with 3sg.m. indirect object suffix
• af-iwá 'why'
• təfki-dík 2sg.pf. 'to give' final -t is lost due to following 1sg. indirect object suffix
• əlḥəqq-ənnúk <Ar. ḥaqq 'truth, rightful possession; one's due' + 1sg. possessive suffix. [Kato:] And, for clarification, ḥǝgg is 'price' in eastern Libyan.

iní-s Žḥá: s-kémma nək d-alə́ṣlaʕ

'because I am bald'

• s-kə́mma 'because'
• nək 'I'
• alə́ṣlaʕ still means  'bald', but notice how the accent has curiously shifted to a different syllable since last time we saw this word, oddly, in the exact same context.

Comments

[bulbul]

ənnúṣ < نصف CA [naṣf] plus definite article and assimilation (at least I think that's what it is, because you usually get [nuṣṣ]).
əlbarát: I think the root is BR', there's a bunch of North-African words I know derived from this root quite close to the meaning here, e.g. burayyah = bill, mubarat = money order.

[bulbul]

D'oh, here it is: bara (+ feminine -t) = receipt, contract.

[Lameen]

ənnúṣ: < Ar. niṣf (the f is often lost dialectally)

əlbarát: < Turkish para, via dialectal Arabic.

[kato]

thanks for the continued postings.

aləṣláʕ 'bald' - cf. eastern Libyan صلاع، مصلوع 'bald'

yaʕádd 3sg.m.pf. 'to go' - I'm wondering about the influence here. Libyan ar. has īʕǝddī impf., ʕǝddā pf. 'to go'

and, for clarification, ḥǝgg is 'price' in eastern Libyan.

[PhoeniX]

Hey Kato,

All the words you mentioned are indeed loanwords from Arabic.

It's interesting that Aujila retains the classical arabic q as q and not as g that is what you find in eastern Libyan