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Arabic translation: كل شيء مباح في الحب والحرب

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English term or phrase:	All is fair in love and war
Arabic translation:	كل شيء مباح في الحب والحرب
Entered by:	maiabulela

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12:16 Jun 25, 2010

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English term or phrase: All is fair in love and war

What is the meaning of "All is fair in love and war"?

I translated it as لا قواعد في الحب والحرب and I would be grateful if you kindly suggest better translation.

Thanks,

maiabulela KudoZ activity Questions: 467 (8 open) (53 closed without grading) Answers: 3
Local time: 00:41

كل شيء مباح في الحب والحرب

Explanation:
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Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 00:41

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Summary of answers provided

5 +2

كل شيء مباح في الحب والحرب

Nadia Ayoub

5 +1

الغاية تبرر الوسيلة

mohdysh

الغاية تبرر الوسيلة في كل مواقف العشق والحرب

Muhammad Atallah

4 +1

في الحب والحرب كل شيء يجوز

baligh

كل شيء مباح في الحب أو الحرب

Raed Rami

في الحب والحرب، كل شيء مباح.

A_kourani

Answers

5 mins confidence:

all is fair in love and war الغاية تبرر الوسيلة في كل مواقف العشق والحرب

Explanation:
الـغـايـة تُــبــرِّر الـوسـيـلـة فـي كل مـواقف الـعـشـق والـحـرب عـلـى الـسَّـواء

Muhammad Atallah
Egypt
Local time: 00:41
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 29

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks a lot.

58 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

all is fair in love and war في الحب والحرب كل شيء يجوز

Explanation:
I found this English proverb often translated as this "في الحب والحرب كل شيء يجوز"
I think "الغاية تبرر الوسيلة" would be the equivalent of "The ends justify the means."

Good luck

baligh
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

all is fair in love and war الغاية تبرر الوسيلة

Explanation:
From Cambridge dictionay: something that you say which means behaviour that is unpleasant or not fair is acceptable during an argument or competition
We weren't cheating, we were just playing to win. Anyway, all's fair in love and war.
Best regards

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-06-25 13:48:59 GMT)
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Actually "all is fair in love and war" and "the ends justify the means" have the same meaning, only the first is described (in the UK for instance) as glib.

Best

Example sentence(s):

We weren't cheating, we were just playing to win. Anyway, all's fair in love and war. Cambridge dictionary)

Reference: http://dictionaries.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=I&key=fair...

mohdysh
Lebanon
Local time: 01:41
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

all is fair in love and war

كل شيء مباح في الحب والحرب

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

Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 00:41
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 178

3 hrs confidence:

all is fair in love and war في الحب والحرب، كل شيء مباح.

Explanation:
هذه هي الترجمة الحرفية، ويمكن التلاعب في توزيع الكلمات حسب سياق الجملة، كأن يقال: كل شيء مباح في الحب والحرب او كلّه مباح في الحب والحرب.

A_kourani
Local time: 01:41
Native speaker of:

Arabic

23 hrs confidence:

all is fair in love and war كل شيء مباح في الحب أو الحرب

Explanation:
أعتقد ان ترجمتك ملائمة جدا خصوصا ان السجع في الأصل
في كلمتي fair , war

معوض تلقائيا في كلمتي حب و حرب

لكن اذا تمكنت من وزن القافية أكثر على شكل شطر شعري يكون احلى .. لكن هذا يحتاج لشاعر

لكن العبارة مناسبة

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Note added at 23 hrs (2010-06-26 11:47:13 GMT)
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خذي مثلا ..

في الحب او الحرب .. أسلك أي درب

فالتسلك أي درب ما دمت في حب أو في حرب

بما معناه الغاية تبرر الوسيلة

لكن " الغاية تبرر الوسيلة" شريرة اكثر من الحب و الحرب التي قد توحي بالإضرار أكثر من الغاية تبرر الوسيلة التي توحي بالمكر و الوصولية اكثر و الله اعلم

Raed Rami
Palestine
Native speaker of:

Arabic

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