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English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Tourism & Travel / Travel Industry | | English term or phrase: douching | A porcelain bathroom fixture, common in European hotels, designed to bathe a woman's external genitalia and for douching.
douche = نضح، منضحة = المورد
هل هي "الاغتسال" كما اشارت سارسام؟ |
| | | دوش مهبلي | Explanation:
Al-Mawrid is considerate and sensitive. It tries to avoid the use of the actual meaning in Arabic. There's no need to be sensitive in science. We are all adults. The term exists in the dictionaries, we are not inventing it. With due respect to all the pros, especially to the female pros, I am not being rude by contributing.
الاغتسال المهبلي
دوش مهبلي
Multi-Disciplinary Dictionary
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Note added at 2003-03-09 19:00:27 (GMT)
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Thank you Saleh for rescuing me. |
| Selected response from:
 Sami Khamou
Local time: 11:48
| Grading comment | 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
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9 mins confidence:  الاسـتنجاء بالماء
Explanation:
The bidet is not for douching, as commonly understood. Generally speaking, douching is the use of water and other medicinal substances for a thorough cleansing of any body part or cavity for hygienic purposes. We call that استنجاء
However, douching, as commonly understood, means something more specific than that, which I should not explain here. It is too private.
The bidet is used for cleaning a person's bottom with water, i.e., for douching in the general sense of اسـتنجاء and not for the specific meaning of douching as commonly used.
We commonly understand اغتسال as applying to the whole body, as when you take a shower. That is not a douche.
Fuad
| Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of:  Arabic, English
PRO pts in category: 663
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12 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1
1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 دوش مهبلي
Explanation:
Al-Mawrid is considerate and sensitive. It tries to avoid the use of the actual meaning in Arabic. There's no need to be sensitive in science. We are all adults. The term exists in the dictionaries, we are not inventing it. With due respect to all the pros, especially to the female pros, I am not being rude by contributing.
الاغتسال المهبلي
دوش مهبلي
Multi-Disciplinary Dictionary
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Note added at 2003-03-09 19:00:27 (GMT)
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Thank you Saleh for rescuing me.
| Sami Khamou
Local time: 11:48
Native speaker of:  Arabic
PRO pts in category: 64
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