Hoping it will go through this time (but the soup might be cold by now ...) Rachel
-----Original Message----- From: Rachel Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:27 PM To: 'heb-naco@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu' Cc: 'yossi Galron' Subject: RE: molokheyah? Based on another book by him (and an Arabic dictionary) it's mulukhiyah. Rachel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Talbott Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:52 AM To: heb-naco@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Cc: yossi Galron Subject: molokheyah? i've got a book here with a word in the title that i think is arabic: [mem-vav-lamed-vav-kaf-yud-yud-heh] shel ima / nisim zohar. the english langauge title on the t.p. verso: my mother's soup. the word looks like it might be the declined form of the arabic equivalent to mara[dot]k. this is nice and all, but this doesn't help me vocalize it. there is a partial vocalization on p. 35; there's a segol under the kaf, but this doesn't help me much. thanks in advance