Hellon
10 years ago
What does Houria, hoorieh or horrieh actually mean? All the same thing or not? I knew a lady from somewhere in the middle east...can't remember where now and she used to say a word...something like...hoora...(that's what is sounded like to me) meaning something was free. That's why I thought she was singing about freedom originally. |
Hellon
10 years ago
Well...I'm actually so glad that I kinda got it right...I thought she (my neighbour in Korea actually) was saying something that sounded like Horra...free...when she was asking me in for coffee..I always thought it a very strange thing (would she charge others) and..that's why the word stuck in my head after ...gosh..12 years or so... |
Hellon
10 years ago
OK I have now heard back from my source and the word we seem to be stumbling on is Hooriah. Abed...you say it means mermaid while my source says it means "a fine woman in heaven". Either way I would feel that, translated to English, it's farcical and therefore...I would be inclined to lean with the translation that she's talking about suicide bombers...as in meeting something better in heaven...like the seven virgins that's promised or...like the mermaid is that another myth??? |
Sunshine
10 years ago
Hellon, I am lebanese, and above all I am a translator. |
Michael D Nalley
10 years ago
Http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/07/28/hezbollah-promises-all-means-of-support-for-gaza-resistance |