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

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

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

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

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