An Arabic phrase used mainly in the Lebanon as a reaction when receiving news about a very bad incident (death, accident, ..), or as an exaggeration to a not-so-bad incident, like when kids break something or ruin the place.
It's usually used by mothers and elderly women.
Words used in phrase:
Sh'har: Is the black dirt one gets when s/he touches charcoal or the bottom of a dirty cooking pot or pan.
Mshahhar (mas.)/Mshahhara (fem.): Is a person whose face has been smudged with Sh'har (the black dirt)
Ya: O. Used in Arabic to call upon someone; e.g. O Man, where are you? O Alex, where did you hide my book?
So Yamshahhar, literally means "Oh you whose face is smudged with black dirt!"
Background:
In the old days, when someone passed away, his/her close relatives (especially women; mother, wife, sister..) would smear their face(s) with black dirt coming from charcoal or the bottom of cooking pots. This was to show extreme sadness about what had befallen them.
With time the phrase Yamshahhar/Yamshahhara became used to express extreme feelings of shock and sadness about a bad incident, though the act of smudging ones face stopped. Now, this phrase is usually used by the elderly, especially women, although most people who use it do not know the meaning of the words or why it is coined like this (like many idioms in Arabic and other languages).
It's usually used by mothers and elderly women.
Words used in phrase:
Sh'har: Is the black dirt one gets when s/he touches charcoal or the bottom of a dirty cooking pot or pan.
Mshahhar (mas.)/Mshahhara (fem.): Is a person whose face has been smudged with Sh'har (the black dirt)
Ya: O. Used in Arabic to call upon someone; e.g. O Man, where are you? O Alex, where did you hide my book?
So Yamshahhar, literally means "Oh you whose face is smudged with black dirt!"
Background:
In the old days, when someone passed away, his/her close relatives (especially women; mother, wife, sister..) would smear their face(s) with black dirt coming from charcoal or the bottom of cooking pots. This was to show extreme sadness about what had befallen them.
With time the phrase Yamshahhar/Yamshahhara became used to express extreme feelings of shock and sadness about a bad incident, though the act of smudging ones face stopped. Now, this phrase is usually used by the elderly, especially women, although most people who use it do not know the meaning of the words or why it is coined like this (like many idioms in Arabic and other languages).
A kid was in a car accident. His mum entered the hospital shouting: Yamshahhara
As the news arrived that the man passed away, his wife shouted: Yamshahhara
The kid arrived home with dirt all over his clothes. The mother said: Yamshahhar, what did you do?
The kid went to the shop an bought too many sweets. As he enters his home, his mother exclaims: Yamshahhar, why did you get all of that?
As their connecting flight was just cancelled. Mohammed asked George: Yamshahhar, what are we going to do now?
As the news arrived that the man passed away, his wife shouted: Yamshahhara
The kid arrived home with dirt all over his clothes. The mother said: Yamshahhar, what did you do?
The kid went to the shop an bought too many sweets. As he enters his home, his mother exclaims: Yamshahhar, why did you get all of that?
As their connecting flight was just cancelled. Mohammed asked George: Yamshahhar, what are we going to do now?
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Yamcha is a term used to compare anyone who keeps trying, but never wins.
Dragon Ball character
-Male
-He never wins against important characters
That said, he can beat unimportant ones, but those people are "UNIMPORTANT"
Dragon Ball character
-Male
-He never wins against important characters
That said, he can beat unimportant ones, but those people are "UNIMPORTANT"
The only characters that Yamcha has ever beaten are the preliminary round fighters in the tournaments , who were defeated offscreen (just to show how unimportant they were)
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ya can also call someone a yampy bleeder
ya can also call someone a yampy bleeder
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Fashion is confined to cowboy or work boots, wrangler jeans and white T-shirts. Camo or cowboy hats are optional. Women wear the same.
The local transportation of choice is pick up trucks with off road tires flying confederate flags. Vehicles may also include gun racks, camouflage, mounted coolers/kegs or a deer carcass (during hunting season or not).
Local past times include bathing in Yaphank Lake (only wearing cut off blue jeans),looking for dear sheads, poaching animals, drinking at the firehouse or with in sight of it, and woodsing cars (getting drunk and driving an old car through the woods until it stops only to light it on fire).
Key places to visit:
- Upper Lake
- Lower Lake
- The Hill
- Mill House
- Black Rock
- German Deli
- German Town
- Suffolk County Police HQ
- Jail
- Parking lot across from Fire Department
Fashion is confined to cowboy or work boots, wrangler jeans and white T-shirts. Camo or cowboy hats are optional. Women wear the same.
The local transportation of choice is pick up trucks with off road tires flying confederate flags. Vehicles may also include gun racks, camouflage, mounted coolers/kegs or a deer carcass (during hunting season or not).
Local past times include bathing in Yaphank Lake (only wearing cut off blue jeans),looking for dear sheads, poaching animals, drinking at the firehouse or with in sight of it, and woodsing cars (getting drunk and driving an old car through the woods until it stops only to light it on fire).
Key places to visit:
- Upper Lake
- Lower Lake
- The Hill
- Mill House
- Black Rock
- German Deli
- German Town
- Suffolk County Police HQ
- Jail
- Parking lot across from Fire Department
I was at the gas station and saw this slut that was wearing work boots and a camouflage jump suit, she must have been from Yaphank.
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Also known as Ya-pet
Also known as Ya-pet
Girl 1: Whoa, you those guys over there?
Girl 2: You mean Eric, Yaphet, Jeremy, Dennis, Anthony, Fernando, and the Bradon Nyabuti?
Girl 1: Yeah, they're so hot.
Girl 3: They pretty cool
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Girl 1: Yeah, they're so hot.
Girl 3: They pretty cool
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