Arabic Tongue Twisters

Rough Translations

1. These apricots ar not our apricots. The place of these apricots is not the place of our apricots
2. My soul and your soul are one soul. Wherever your soul goes, my soul also goes!
3. A rabbit jumped to another bed looking for another.
4. Dates were hung over the castle of Halab (Aleppo).
5. She was eating one cucumber and left one cucumber for Shaya.
6. These apricots are not from our apricots
7. He knocked on the door He said, "Who?" He said, "Amin" He said, "What's your problem?" He said, "The old woman" He said, "What's her problem?" He said, "She's dead" He said, "Really?!" He said, "Really" He said, "Follow me!" He said, "Let's go!
8. Our plate came to sit on top of yours. When he came he found you plate on top of him
9. Our house's clay is from toag's house clay, and toag's house clay is from our house's clay...
10. No, you, for god's sake I swear!
11. Khamees catches the nose of Habash, Habash catches the nose of Khamees.
12. A lorry after a lorry after a lorry...
13. Tarik hits (is hitting?) Taki
14. Put the sour vegetables (?) in the pocket of the policeman
15. A silk thread on Khaleel's wall.
16. Our duck blew up your duck's stomach, can your duck blow up our duck's stomach like our duck blew up your duck's stomach?
17. Our sugar canes broke our sugar canes' basket. Could your sugar canes brake your sugar canes' basket like our sugar canes did?
18. Anwars (arabic name) rabbit jumped into Anwars court.
19. One fat man with a big fat belly, met another fat man with a big fat belly, he said "Do you have a big fat belly?" The man replied: "I don't think so!
20. There is a tarboosh, that we have set up, and a tarboosh, that we have not set up. Stand up tarboosh-wearer, and set up the tarboosh that we have not set up. German: (Da ist) ein Tarboush, den wir aufgesetzt haben, und ein Tarboush, den wir nicht aufgesetzt haben. Steh auf, Tarboush-Träger, und setz den Tarboush auf, den wir nicht aufgesetzt haben.
21. Hosam counted Hassan's account
22. We have a cow, and my aunt Baraka has a cow. We slaughtered our cow, and our aunt Baraka slaughtered her cow. The soup of our cow was tastier than than of my aunt Baraka's cow.
23. A cardboard in a cardboard, can you, the master of the cardboards, be a cardboard?
24. We killed our spotted cow, Al-Borga family also killed their spotted cow. The soup made from the meat of the neck of our spotted cow came much tastier than the soup made from the meat of the neck of Dar Al-Borga's spotted cow !
25. A bush tree, I tried to pull it out, but it did not go out !
26. Iam not making a fool of you, don't make a fool of me !
27. aunt basima prepared me some basbosa (an arabian
    dessert) with sugar and margarine but unfortunatly it was too hot and I burnt my tongue!
28. A rooster (whith the name of) Saghfe jumped on the second one (called Sagahfengah) and beat him up. Can the rooster Sgahfangah jump on the rooster Sagahfe and beat him up like the rooster Sagahfe beat the Sagahfangah?
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33. We got seven fezzes from the fezzes maker. Tell me, O fez-man, can you make for us seven fezzes the same as the ones we got from the fezzes maker.
34. We got seven pins from the pins maker. Tell me, O pin-man, can you make for us seven pins the same as the ones we got from the pins maker.
35. I knocked the door until my arm hurts, she said: Isma'il wait. I said: Asma, I've lost my patience.
36. Asaad Saied Saber climbed Saad Sayel's fence.
37. Khamees caught Habash's nose
38. We cooked our dish in your kitchen.

shukran - شكرا

Riham Abdullah, Salah Ahmed, Anwar Al-Duwailah, Bader Al-Fadhel, Luqman al-Hakim, Faisal Al-Kamali, Ahmed Alazmi, Suzan AlQahtani, Alamir Alsakka, Ghanomi Ashi, Khalid Baqer, Adel El Sayed, Dalia Elmekki, Iamis Isk, Brandy Jones, Fouad Khoury, Maguy Klaissner, Martin Korsch, Ali Madani, Alaoui Mohamed, Saadiya Nali, Don Omran, Nigel Parry, Dalia Samak, Mohammed Thiab, Kerstin Wilsch, Zosia Zielinska

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