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Ever Smoker/Never Smoker

Arabic translation: مدخن ولو قليلاً/عديم التدخين


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English term or phrase:Ever Smoker/Never Smoker
Arabic translation:مدخن ولو قليلاً/عديم التدخين
Entered by: Fuad Yahya
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15:29 Jan 16, 2008
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English term or phrase: Ever Smoker/Never Smoker
Ever Smoker: A person who has smoked more than 100 cigarettes in his or her lifetime.

Never Smoker: A person who has smoked less than 100 cigarettes in his or her lifetime
Hossam Sabry
Local time: 06:52
مدخن ولو قليلاً/عديم التدخين
Explanation:
Ever smoker
مدخِّن ولو قليلاً

Never smoker
عديم التدخين

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Note added at 16 hrs (2008-01-17 07:36:04 GMT)
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This is in reply to the question below by the Asker:

The quantity of 100 cigarettes in a life time represents the technical demarcation line between above which a person is considered to have smoked at all. Anything less, based on the definition given, is considered negligible. Remember, it is all a metter of definition. Common sense has nothing to do with it.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2مدخن ولو قليلاً/عديم التدخينFuad Yahya
5مدخن فعلي، محترف/مدخن تسلية
amky
5لم يدخن إطلاقا/لم يدخن أبداAbdelmadjid Ayad
5قليل التدخين / نادر التدخين (مدخن)اzax
4كثير التدخين/ قليل التدخين
Mohsin Alabdali


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
ever smoker/never smoker
قليل التدخين / نادر التدخين (مدخن)ا


Explanation:
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zax
Local time: 00:52
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
ever smoker/never smoker
لم يدخن إطلاقا/لم يدخن أبدا


Explanation:
لم يدخن إطلاقا/لم يدخن أبدا

Abdelmadjid Ayad
United States
Local time: 00:52
Native speaker of: Arabic
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ever smoker/never smoker
كثير التدخين/ قليل التدخين


Explanation:
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Mohsin Alabdali
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 07:52
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
ever smoker/never smoker
مدخن فعلي، محترف/مدخن تسلية


Explanation:
يقول انه مدخن محترف للتدخين من سنوات رغم صغر سنة '

Example sentence(s):
  • انا أعتبر مدخن تسلية

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amky
Local time: 07:52
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
ever smoker/never smoker
مدخن ولو قليلاً/عديم التدخين


Explanation:
Ever smoker
مدخِّن ولو قليلاً

Never smoker
عديم التدخين

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Note added at 16 hrs (2008-01-17 07:36:04 GMT)
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This is in reply to the question below by the Asker:

The quantity of 100 cigarettes in a life time represents the technical demarcation line between above which a person is considered to have smoked at all. Anything less, based on the definition given, is considered negligible. Remember, it is all a metter of definition. Common sense has nothing to do with it.

Fuad Yahya
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 51
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Asker: Dear Sir If Never Smoker means عديم التدخين, then what about the 100 cigarettes in the definition?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  nageeb2008: قليل التدخين اً/عديم التدخين
1 hr
  -> "Ever Smoker" is not coterminous with "light smoker." It simply means "a smoker, even if just a little bit."

agree  kifahl
19 hrs
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