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Arabic translation: تنمق/تكلف/تكبر


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English term or phrase:la-di-dah
Arabic translation:تنمق/تكلف/تكبر
Entered by: Aljobury
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18:14 Mar 5, 2008
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: la-di-dah
though she still had a good bit of old virginia la-di-dah in her attitude toward blacks
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تنمق/تكلف/تكبر
Explanation:
http://www.answers.com/topic/la-di-da
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Aljobury
Egypt
Local time: 21:51
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Summary of answers provided
5 +4تنمق/تكلف/تكبرAljobury
5ladida is an informal adj that means affectedly genteel or pretentious
Rasha El-Gabry
4متغطرسnatasha stoyanova


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
متغطرس


Explanation:
متغطرس , متعجرف , متجبر
it means a specific attitude of the higher/upper class towards people of lower class (in the state of Virginia, as the sample says, they alst gave up on treating blacks as slaves, only after the war)
equal to haughty, arrogant, overproud


    Reference: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/arrogan...
natasha stoyanova
Bulgaria
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Native speaker of: Native in BulgarianBulgarian
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
تنمق/تكلف/تكبر


Explanation:
http://www.answers.com/topic/la-di-da

Aljobury
Egypt
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2 days17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
ladida is an informal adj that means affectedly genteel or pretentious


Explanation:
genteel or prtentious
وتعني بالعربية شخص مدع أو متكلف

Example sentence(s):
  • ladida manner

    Reference: http://www.answers.com
Rasha El-Gabry
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Changes made by editors
Mar 16, 2008 - Changes made by Aljobury:
Created KOG entryKudoZ term => KOG term
Mar 5, 2008 - Changes made by Saleh Al-Qammaari:
Language pairArabic to English => English to Arabic


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