Ḥarr nar

🇱🇾 Libya

Literally 'heat fire,' means 'extremely hot'. People double descriptors, so you might hear sākhin sukhūn (hot hot) or ḥa...

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Ḥaṣla

🇱🇾 Libya

Used to describe someone or something that's stubborn, hard to deal with, or a pain in the neck. If a person is 'ḥaṣla,'...

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Ḥāja bāhiya

🇱🇾 Libya

A 'cool thing' (literally 'a good thing') – Libyan youth use bahia (Tunisian-influenced) to mean cool/nice.

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Ḥāja ḥāja

🇱🇾 Libya

Means 'so-so' or neither here nor there. If you ask how something was, haja haja indicates it was mediocre.

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Ḥāla ḥāla

🇱🇾 Libya

Literally 'one condition one condition,' used to mean 'same old, nothing new.' If you ask how are things and they reply ...

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