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السهل الممتنع

English translation: Challenging Ease

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05:51 Jun 7, 2004

Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics

Arabic term or phrase: السهل الممتنع

please helpe me with she most Appropriate equivalent for this expression .
regards to all

alqawasmeh KudoZ activity Questions: 1 (none open) Answers: 0
Local time: 13:41

English translation:Challenging Ease

Explanation:
Well, I believe that is more close to native style of interpreting it! Here is part of an article I was reading the other day:

The wisdom of the years, with its remaining vibrant youthfulness, comes through “Brother Ray.” Barretto’s brand of jazz leads to challenging ease, albeit mindful of musical reliability. The New World Spirit has never been as hyperactive as other Latin Jazz groups and figures tend to be. This performance is middle-aged jazz with yarns of mambo and Salsa, of which the material in the Barretto Head Sounds release stands as a distant relative.

Hope that helps! I will think of other translations and will let you know.

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mutarjem
Local time: 11:41

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5 +4

apparent ease

Nesrin

4 +5

Challenging Ease

mutarjem

5 +3

inimitable simplicity

Doaa El Hefnawy

The factor of tantalization

Amidas

Too easy that it does not cross your mind

empower

3 -1

the abstaining simple, the forbearing simple

Randa F

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السهل الممتنع

Challenging Ease

mutarjem
Local time: 11:41
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

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9 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

السهل الممتنع apparent ease

Explanation:
This is a very widely used expression:
E.g. "He could play the hardest and most complex compositions with apparent ease"

Reference: http://greutweb.cs.fredonia.edu/~lung7793/ass5/index2.html

Nesrin
Local time: 09:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 8

12 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

السهل الممتنع inimitable simplicity

Explanation:
I think that we are trying to explain that something is simple and yet unique, complete and immpossible to copy. I suggest "inimitable simplicity", espically in relation to writing styles.
Webster's dictionary states that inimitable is
"Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited;
beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless;
unrivaled; exceptional; unique;"

Doaa El Hefnawy
Local time: 11:41
Native speaker of:

Arabic

12 hrs confidence:

السهل الممتنع The factor of tantalization

Explanation:
to tantalize means to bring something in front of someone who desperately needs it but never give it to him (torture someone by making him think he is getting something which he will never get), like food in front of a starving person but never let him eat it,

Amidas
Local time: 09:41

13 hrs confidence:

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السهل الممتنع the abstaining simple, the forbearing simple

Explanation:
السهل الممتنع هو الشيء المتميز الصعب الذي يصل إلى الناس بسهولة
مثال على ذلك الخُطب اللغوية البلاغية، فهي تصل بسهولة إلى الناس ولكن قلة منهم قادرين على الكلام بهذه البلاغة
مثال آخر الرسوم الكاريكاتيرية التي تنقد شيء ما فإنها سهلة الفهم والإشارة لدى الجميع لكنها صعبة التنفيذ بمعنى أن ليس كل من يفهمها قادر على رسمها أو ابتكارها
السهل الممتنع هو الذي في ظاهره سهل الفهم وفي باطنه صعب التكوين

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abstaining ease, forbearing ease

Randa F
Lebanon
Local time: 11:41
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 8

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السهل الممتنع Too easy that it does not cross your mind

Explanation:
This is a saying about something that is so easy that it is challenging.

empower
Native speaker of:

Arabic

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