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يتعصب لها

English translation: to be a chauvinist/jingoist for it

21:35 Apr 7, 2017
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Famous book in Arabic literature
Arabic term or phrase: يتعصب لها
كان الواجب على مثل هذا ألا يتكلم في بلاده إلا بلغته، وكان الذي هو أوجب أن يتعصب لها على كل لغة تزاحمها في أرضها، فترك هذا وهذا وكان هو المزاحم بنفسه؛ فهو على أنه "حضرة صاحب سعادة"، لا ينزل نفسه من اللغة القومية إلا منزلة خادم أجنبي في حانة.
A series of Articles of Mustafa Sadek Al Rafei colloected in a famous book called (وحي القلم).
This article is found here:
http://elbadil.com/2013/12/مصطفى-كامل-الرافعي-اللسان-المرقع/
madinaharabic
United Arab Emirates
English translation:to be a chauvinist/jingoist for it
Explanation:
Not just zealous or fanatical about the language, but believing in its superiority over every other language on earth.


From the Wikipedia entry on chauvinism:
Chauvinism has extended from its original use to include fanatical devotion and undue partiality to any group or cause to which one belongs, especially when such partisanship includes prejudice against or hostility toward outsiders or rival groups and persists even in the face of overwhelming opposition.[1][2][3] This French quality finds its parallel in the British term jingoism, which has retained the meaning of chauvinism strictly in its original sense; that is, an attitude of belligerent nationalism.[3][4][5]

And from the entry on jingoism:
Colloquially, it refers to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others—an extreme type of nationalism.
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Susan McMillan
United States
Local time: 11:33
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Thanks a lot!
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4 +1to be zealous for it
ProZAli
4to be a chauvinist/jingoist for it
Susan McMillan


  

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to be zealous for it


Explanation:
or: to show/ demonstrate zeal for it

ProZAli
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:33
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Randa Farhat: a devotee (a zealous devotee): Such a person should have only used his native language in his own country; further more, he should have been rather a devotee of his mother tongue at home opposite every other foreign language trying to push its way through
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to be a chauvinist/jingoist for it


Explanation:
Not just zealous or fanatical about the language, but believing in its superiority over every other language on earth.


From the Wikipedia entry on chauvinism:
Chauvinism has extended from its original use to include fanatical devotion and undue partiality to any group or cause to which one belongs, especially when such partisanship includes prejudice against or hostility toward outsiders or rival groups and persists even in the face of overwhelming opposition.[1][2][3] This French quality finds its parallel in the British term jingoism, which has retained the meaning of chauvinism strictly in its original sense; that is, an attitude of belligerent nationalism.[3][4][5]

And from the entry on jingoism:
Colloquially, it refers to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others—an extreme type of nationalism.

Susan McMillan
United States
Local time: 11:33
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!
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Asker: Very useful. Thanks!

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