خِتْيار (khityar) — "[person] old(1)" in Levantine Arabic
خِتْيار
xityār
[person] old(1)
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خِتْيار in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
وقفنا ختيار بشوش قاعد قدام دكانه وسالناه عن زقاق البهارات المعروف
waafna khtyar bashoush aaed eddam dekkano w saalnah an zuqaq al bharat al maarouf
We stopped a smiling old man sitting in front of his shop and asked him about the famous spice alley.
سأل أبو شادي، الخباز الختيار: "مرحبا، كيفك؟ بدي منقوشة زعتر هلق لو سمحت، بقديش؟"
sa'al abu shadi, el-khabbaz el-khetyar: "marhaba, kifak? biddi manqoushet zaatar hallaq law samaht, biqaddesh?"
He asked Abu Shadi, the old baker: "Hello, how are you? I want a zaatar manakish now please, how much is it?"
"مناقيش اللحمة غالية هلق، بس عنا مناقيش زعتر رخيصة"، جاوبو أبو فادي، صاحب المحل الختيار.
"Manaqish al-lahmeh ghaliyeh hallaq, bas 'anna manaqish za'tar rakhisah," jawabo Abu Fadi, sahib al-mahal al-khtyar.
"Meat manakish are expensive now, but we have cheap zaatar manakish," Abu Fadi, the old shop owner, answered him.
بعدين شفت ختيار وسألته ودلني على الطريق بوضوح
Ba3dēn sheft khtiyār w sa'alto w dallani 3aṭ-ṭarīq bwuḍūḥ.
Then I saw an old man and asked him, and he showed me the way clearly.
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