Comments: RAMADAN/RAMZAN.

Thanks, I was wondering!

Posted by beth at October 27, 2003 07:34 PM

What do the Iranians say "RAMZAN" or "RAMADAN"?
According to you then the Arabic form in English is RAMADAN. Am I right?
I am not a Muslim, but was always curious about this confusion between RAMZAN and RAMADAN. As a South Asian RAMADAN sounded awfully wrong to me

Posted by Subhash Ghosh at December 21, 2003 03:23 PM

Yes, we say Ramadan in English, because we got it direct from Arabic. But of course it sounds wrong to you, since you grew up with the -z- form. (The Iranians say ramazan.)

Posted by language hat at December 21, 2003 06:18 PM

Interesting, but I guess not unexpected, that the Russians should have gotten ??????? through the Turkic/Iranian channel rather than through the European one.

Posted by PF at December 22, 2003 02:16 AM

Oh dear. Originally that said "ramazan" in Cyrillic.

Posted by PF at December 22, 2003 02:16 AM

assalam-o-alaikum how r u tum ko ur tumaharay ghur waloon ko mary turaf say ramadan mubarak ho ur ALLAH TUM KO UR TUMAHARAY GHUR WALOON KO TUMAM ROZAY RUKHNAY KE TOFIQ ATA FURMAYE (AMIN )TUM MARAY LIYE UR APNAY LIYA ALLAH SAY PRAY KURNA

Posted by saba at October 14, 2004 07:31 PM

SUKRIYA--FOR THIS COMPLEX WORDS.

Posted by MD JAVED at May 3, 2005 04:51 AM