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تقض مضاجع

English translation: to stir up, to agitate, to unsettle

21:34 Feb 28, 2010
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Arabic term or phrase: تقض مضاجع
ان أزمة البطالة التى باتت تقض مضاجع الشباب وتدفعهم للهجرة....
atefwasfy
Local time: 10:38
English translation:to stir up, to agitate, to unsettle
Explanation:
Also: to have a disquieting effect upon

"Unemployment, which has had a disquieting effect upon the youth, etc."
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Fuad Yahya
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Summary of answers provided
5 +4to stir up, to agitate, to unsettle
Fuad Yahya
5 +1Irritating | bothering| annoying| troubling| upsetting
Ghada Samir
4 +1loosing sleep over
Nadia Ayoub
4to rob someone's sleep
Liliane Hatem
4give sleepless nights
baligh
3thorn
Alaa AHMED


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
thorn


Explanation:
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Alaa AHMED
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 11:38
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
to stir up, to agitate, to unsettle


Explanation:
Also: to have a disquieting effect upon

"Unemployment, which has had a disquieting effect upon the youth, etc."

Fuad Yahya
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 59
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Zoubida Hamdaoui
26 mins
agree  Mona Helal
57 mins
agree  Lamis Maalouf: نعم لأن الفاعل هو البطالة وليس الشباب، فهي التي تسبّب الأرق والقلق
1 hr
agree  Aymene Zermane
12 hrs
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
loosing sleep over


Explanation:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lose sleep over
lose sleep over someone or something and lose sleep about someone or something

http://www.google.com.eg/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&...

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-02-28 23:08:01 GMT)
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losing sleep over (sorry for the typo)

Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 10:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 99

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agree  Mona Helal: "losing" :))
1 hr
  -> Many thanks Mona, also for correcting my error :)
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Irritating | bothering| annoying| troubling| upsetting


Explanation:
Irritating | bothering| annoying| troubling| upsetting

تقض مضاجع means simply one of those meanings, of course you can use: irritate , bother, annoy, trouble, upset,.. depending on how you'll phrase your sentence


Ghada Samir
Egypt
Local time: 10:38
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  Heba Salah
4 hrs
  -> Many thanks:)
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to rob someone's sleep


Explanation:
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Liliane Hatem
Lebanon
Local time: 11:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 20
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give sleepless nights


Explanation:
The unemployment crisis which gives the youth sleepless nights / makes the youth's nights grow sleepless and pushes them to emigration.



baligh
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in SpanishSpanish
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