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Arabic translation: أسباني، إسباني

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English term or phrase:	Hispanic
Arabic translation:	أسباني، إسباني
Entered by:	Fuad Yahya

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23:24 Jun 20, 2003

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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

English term or phrase: hispanic

An ethic code such as Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic

Alaa Zeineldine KudoZ activity Questions: 215 (none open) (23 closed without grading) Answers: 1135 Egypt
Local time: 06:10

أسباني

Explanation:
If the context is all about ethnicity, there should be no need to qualify the term in any specific way. It will be understood not as a designation of citizenship or "nationality," but as a designation of ethnicity.

If the context is not all about ethnicity and thus may be ambiguous, I would then quality the term as

أسباني الأصل
أسباني المنشأ

or even

أسباني الأثنية

and so on.

Selected response from:

Fuad Yahya

Grading comment

Thanks to both of you. This was a difficult decision which I took based on popular usage. In his argument, sami mentioned هسباني, which reminded me that almost every Arabic speaker I know calls hispanics إسباني without regard to Spanish or non-Spanish origin. Because the forms I am translating will be filled by lay people, I opted for this choice.
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5 +10

أسباني

Fuad Yahya

4 +2

لاتيني

Sami Khamou

Discussion entries: 1

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peer agreement (net): +10

أسباني

Fuad Yahya
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لاتيني

Explanation:
Hispanic is one of the most confusing term. It refers mainly to the speakers of Spanish.

But calling Hispanic أسباني
would limit the scope of the term to people of spanish origin. Hispanics include also indigenous populations of Latin America who were colonized by Spain and forced to speak Spanish!
Therefore, I would prefer to use the term لاتيني for overall coverage.

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Note added at 2003-06-21 12:24:02 (GMT)
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Alaa,
Thank you for your comment. My suggestion لاتيني is not based on national origin but on geography. A lot of indigenous Hispanics are not of Spanish origin but they come from the area south of USA. Some of them do not even speak Spanish but other languages like Portuguese. I know, there\'s a lot of confusion. That\'s why, in English, they are called \"Hispanics\" instead of \"Spaniards\". Maybe we should also consider the transliterated form هسباني.

Thanks

Sami Khamou
Local time: 23:10
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 8

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Changes made by editors

Feb 14, 2006 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya:
Level	Non-PRO => PRO
Feb 14, 2006 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya:
Field (specific)	(none) => Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Dec 17, 2005 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya:
Field	Other => Social Sciences

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