LudwigVan's definitions

hump music

Music appropriate for sex, such as that by Marvin Gaye and Barry White. Also the incidental music in pornographic movies, often very cheap disco.

I got five whole CD's of hump music for when my wife and I celebrate our wedding anniversary.

by LudwigVan October 1, 2004

Sudan

A country in northeast Africa centered in the upper Nile (where the White and Blue Nile merge), capital is Khartoum. It has endured a long civil war between the Arabs of the north and the Black Africans of the south and west, which has resulted in genocide, rape, slavery and other atrocities. The name is Arabic for 'black people'.

Sudan is the Mississippi of the Middle East.

by LudwigVan August 23, 2004

Robin Hood

In the state of Texas, USA (and possibly other states), a policy of applying a greater amount of taxes collected from public school districts to less affluent school districts, which pay a higher tax percentage.

Robin Hood is one of the state education policies most criticized by conservatives and Republicans, along with affirmative action and bilingual education.

by LudwigVan August 23, 2004

Shiite

More appropriately, Shi'a or Shi'i. The second largest sect of Islam, founded by followers of Ali, the fourth Sunni caliph (successor to Prophet Muhammad) who married the Prophet's daughter Fatima. About ten percent of the world's Muslims are Shi'a, and prefer to call themselves Ahl ul-Bayt (the 'People of the House', i.e. family of Muhammad). The largest Shi'a denomination believe in twelve imams, Ali being the first, and the last, al-Mahdi, is in hiding and expected to return to prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ. The differences between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims have more to do with politics and culture than faith and religion.

Shi'ism is most prevalent on either side of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the modern nations of Iran and Iraq (more in the southern part of the latter). The Shi'as of Iraq suffered great persecution under the nominal Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein. Currently, a young Shi'a cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, is leading a powerful resistance against the American and allied occupation forces from the holy city of Najaf.

by LudwigVan August 23, 2004

haram

1) In Islam, a forbidden activity, food, drink, or thought. Examples of haram things are: eating pork, drinking alcohol, having sex at daytime during Ramadan, extramarital sex, neglect of prayer and fasting, and blasphemy.

2) In the slang of Arabic and languages influenced by Arabic, anything evil or sinful. Forms compounds like Arabic ibn haram 'bastard' (lit. 'son of sin'), and Malay anak haram (also meaning 'bastard').

Uh, isn't making out in a mosque kind of a haram activity? I don't think it matters if you're married.

by LudwigVan August 23, 2004

wat

Ethiopian stew containing vegetables, berbere (a very hot mixture of spices) and sometimes meat and/or boiled egg. Traditionally eaten with a pancake-like bread called injera, without a spoon or fork.

Doro wat is chicken stew, sega wat is lamb stew, and yemiser wat is lentil stew.

by LudwigVan August 23, 2004

astaghfirullah

An Arabic expression of disapproval or shame, meaning "God forgive me".

They didn't put any lemon juice in the hummus. Astaghfirullah!

by LudwigVan August 23, 2004