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For Susan and the word mafia

Reader comment on item: How the West Could Lose
in response to reader comment: still about semantics

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jan 7, 2007 at 07:14

Hi Susan

Well the wrod swagger means: ghartassa.

The word boast means: Iftikhar

The word aggressive means: mutazidd

So we are still left with the word mahjas. The problem with this word is that the letter "h" can be Arabic hah or Arabic heh

So let us try Arabic Hah which is most likely the letter here:

The root would be HJS

And the word Mahjas with a hah means: the obstacle.

I could not find a word mahjas with a heh or even a root MJS with a heh. So I must disagree that the explanation provided does not make sense.

I will keep looking.


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