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Arabic translation: زئبقي المزاج / متقلب /عطاردي / غير ثابت


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English term or phrase:mercurial
Arabic translation:زئبقي المزاج / متقلب /عطاردي / غير ثابت
Entered by: zax
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10:39 Nov 23, 2008
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology
English term or phrase: mercurial
mercurial change in behaviour
Dr. Hamzeh Thaljeh
Syria
Local time: 00:07
زئبقي المزاج / متقلب /عطاردي / غير ثابت
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zax
Local time: 17:07
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3زئبقي المزاج / متقلب /عطاردي / غير ثابتzax
5 +1تغير زئبقي/تغير حاد
Noha Kamal, PhD.
3تغير جذرىAmira Sayed
Summary of reference entries provided
Not حاد and certainly not جذري!Yasser El Helw

  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
تغير زئبقي/تغير حاد


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Noha Kamal, PhD.
Local time: 23:07
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 22

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agree  hanysalah
2 hrs
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
تغير جذرى


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Amira Sayed
Egypt
Local time: 23:07
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
زئبقي المزاج / متقلب /عطاردي / غير ثابت


Explanation:
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zax
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nadia Ayoub: سلوك متقلب
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Nadia

agree  Mahmoud Rayyan
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Mahmoud

agree  Mohsin Alabdali
17 hrs
  -> Thanks, Mohsin
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Reference comments


34 mins peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: Not حاد and certainly not جذري!

Reference information:
In psychology, mercurial means "volatile" (can change back and forth). Volatile is: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments ("A flirt's volatile affections").
This behavious is likened to mercury because mercury has no stable/fixed shape but rather changes from one shape to another all the time. زئبقي is OK.
Hope this helps :-)

Yasser El Helw
Morocco
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
Note to reference poster
Asker: Many thanks dear


Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Mohsin Alabdali: Gathafi, for example, isa mercurial leader.
19 hrs
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Nov 30, 2008 - Changes made by zax:
Created KOG entryKudoZ term => KOG term


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