Jump to content

Search the Community

Showing results for tags 'Abdulrazak Gurnah'.

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.
  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • Actualités
    • Members and Guests Please Read This
  • Restaurants, Tourism, and Hotels - USA
    • Washington DC Restaurants and Dining
    • Philadelphia Restaurants and Dining
    • New York City Restaurants and Dining
    • Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining
    • San Francisco Restaurants and Dining
    • Houston Restaurants and Dining
    • Baltimore and Annapolis Restaurants and Dining
  • Restaurants, Tourism, and Hotels - International
    • London Restaurants and Dining
    • Paris Restaurants and Dining
  • Shopping and News, Cooking and Booze, Parties and Fun, Travel and Sun
    • Shopping and Cooking
    • News and Media
    • Fine Arts And Their Variants
    • Events and Gatherings
    • Beer, Wine, and Cocktails
    • The Intrepid Traveler
  • Marketplace
    • Professionals and Businesses
    • Catering and Special Events
    • Jobs and Employment

Calendars

There are no results to display.

Categories

  • Los Angeles
    • Northridge
    • Westside
    • Sawtelle
    • Beverly Grove
    • West Hollywood
    • Hancock Park
    • Hollywood
    • Mid
    • Koreatown
    • Los Feliz
    • Silver Lake
    • Westlake
    • Echo Park
    • Downtown
    • Southwest (Convention Center, Staples Center, L.A. Live Complex)
    • Financial District
    • Little Tokyo
    • Arts District
    • Chinatown
    • Venice
    • LAX
    • Southeast Los Angeles
    • Watts
    • Glendale
    • Pasadena
    • Century City
    • Beverly Hills
    • San Gabriel
    • Temple City
    • Santa Monica
    • Culver City
    • Manhattan Beach
    • Thousand Oaks
    • Anaheim
    • Riverside
    • Palm Springs
    • Barbecue
    • Breakfast
    • Chinese
    • Cuban
    • Diners
    • Food Trucks
    • Hamburgers
    • Korean
    • Mexican (and Tex
    • Taiwanese
    • Thai

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End


Last Updated

  • Start

    End


Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End


Group


Skype


AIM


Jabber


Yahoo


ICQ


Website URL


MSN


Interests


Location

Found 1 result

  1. I don’t know how many people will ever use this, but this novel - although written in English by Gurnah - contains numerous terms that may be unfamiliar to the western reader. I’ve written this little glossary to help explain these words (and also the characters), along with the first page of the book in which they’re referenced. This is for the hardcover edition with the burnt-orange colored cover. These are not spoilers unless for some perverse reason you read it from start to finish. The final entry is the only one I couldn’t figure out. —- ABDALLA (presumably “penis”) 7 ABDULRASAK (Yousuf’s “merchant in Herat”) 108 AFREETS (in Arabian mythology, powerful jinns) 112 AGA KHAN (a British-Indian Imam) 80 AJEMI (a bread from Zanzibar (?)) 104 ALHAMDULILLAHI RABI-L ALAMIN (praise God) 58 AMIN (“Amen” in Swahili) AMINA (Khalil’s sister) 204 Ten ANNA (1/16 rupee) coin 4 ASHA (Hamid’s child Yusuf befriended in Olmorog) 107 ASKARIS (soldiers or police officers) 169 ASLI (“original” in Swahili) 63 ASTAGHFIRULLAH (“I seek God’s forgiveness”) 95 Uncle AZIZ (a seyidd who took Youssef as rehani) 3 BA (short for baba, papa) 24 BACHUS (the truck driver for Yusuf’s journey) 53 BAGAMOYO (Yusuf’s father’s original landing) 14 BAFTA (long, narrow pieces of cotton) 109 BANYANS (Indian merchants in Southern Africa) 74 BATI (a young girl in Marungu, attracted to Yousuf) 167 BIRI (a cheap cigarette) 53 BISMILLAH (an invocation to Allah to begin a thing) 19 BOHRAS (Shia Muslims living in Western India) 74 BORAKH (“Buraq”, winged horse prophet rode) 95 BUIBUI (black cloth worn as a shawl) 36 BWANA (sir) 58 CHATU (a harsh Sultan in Marungu) 141 CHILDREN (3) (of Hamid and Maimuna) 69 — (ASHA (11/F), ALI (M), and SUDA (M)) 99 COMORO(s) (island nation of Mozambique) 60 COOLIE (an offensive term for an unskilled laborer) 79 DHOW (1-2 mast sailing ship) 14 as a DHUL QURNAIN (Iskander, slayer of (Ma(Gog)) 41 DUKA-WALLAH (“shopkeeper”) 80 Two EUROPEANS (at train station) 1 FAZA (sea landing in north of Kenya) 15 GANESH (elephant-headed God of beginnings) 81 GERMANS 7 GOG and MAGOG (two groups of Turks) 83 GUJARATI (from Gujarat state in India) 74 HAKIM (learned person) 38 HAMDANI (Arabic for “much praise) 222 HAMID SULEIMAN (man who owned inland shop) 63 HAMIDI MATANGA (a Swahili trader) 143 HARBANS SINGH (Kalasinga, the town mechanic) 74 HERAT (3rd-largest city in Afghanistan) 105 HIRIZI (arm amulet with a verse from the Koran) 198 HOTEL COOK 5 HUJAMBO BWANA WANGU (“how are you, sir?) 57 HUSSEIN (a store owner from Zanzibar in Olmorog) 82 IBLIS (leader of the devils in Islam) IDD (“EID” - a Muslim holiday involving feasting) 17 INDIAN storekeeper and family 6 ISHA (1 of 5 Islamic prayers, in the early evening) 103 JANAB (an Islamic title, “sir”) 53 JENNET AL ADN (“garden of Eden”) 80 JICHO (“the eye” - dhow that took father’s family) 15 JINN (an intelligent spirit of lower rank than an angel) JINNEYEH (“Jinniyah”, feminine form of “jinn”) 200 JUMA’A (Friday) 39 JUU KWA JUU (“top for top”) 189 KAABA (the center building of Mecca’s mosque) 207 KAFIR (an offensive term for a black African) 75 KAKANYAGA (the boatman to Chatu) 142 KALASINGA (Harbans Singh, the town mechanic) 74 KANIKI (Calico strands tied around the waist) 109 KANYENYE (a divided district of Sofala) KANZU (whitish robe, tunic) 17 KARIBU (welcome) 58 KASKAS (a tribal land of Turkish people (?) 106 KAWA (Youssef’s (fictional) home village) 5 KHALIL (Youssef’s young caretaker / employer) 21 KHALIL’S SISTER (Also taken by the Seyyid) 203? KHOIKHOI (S African/Namibian hunter-gatherer) 165 KIFA URONGO (“living death”) 22 KIGONGO (town on return trip) 76 KIJANA MZURI (“beautiful boy”) 52 KIKOI (traditional Swahili cloth) 58 KILIFI (port town in SE Kenya) 46 KILWA (home of father’s first wife, a bit inland) 14 KIMWANA (“darling”, “beloved”) 98 KIPANDE (a type of baseball-like game) 8 KIPUMBU WE (a derogatory term meaning “silly”) 25 KISIMAMAJONGOO (neighborhood errand boy) 36 KISIRANI (bad luck) 49 KISWAHILI (Swahili) 22 KIYAMA (doomsday) 29 LAHODA (captain of a dhow) 14 LAMU (small island in NE Kenya) 63 LUFITA LINDI (port in SE Tanzania) 46 MA AJUZA (an old customer, hits on Youssef) 30 MAFIA ISMAND (an island off of mid-Tanzania) 104 MAGENDO (“magic”, contraband in Swahili) 45 MAIMUNA (Hamid Suleiman’s wife) 63 MAKKA (“Mecca”) MALAI (clotted cream (used in Indian desserts)) 25 MALUUN (cursed / thrown out of society) 25 MANDAZI (fried bread, bofrot, or puff-puff) 19 MANYEMA (a powerful, warlike, Bantu tribe) 73 MAREHEMU (dead) 24 MAREKANI (the United States (?)) 119 MARIMBO (the island conduit to the fierce Chatu) 148 MARUNGU (mountain in Kenya, 140 km from sea) 73 MASHAALLAH (a wonder of God) 47 MASKINI (“very poor” in Swahili) 99 MDACHI (“m” + Dachi ( “German”)) 176 MECHANIC (Indian, trader with Hamid) 71 MFIPO (the chief of the Elders on Chatu’s island) 153 MGANGA (traditional medicine man) 38 MIKOKONI (coastal town in far SE of Kenya) 202 MIRAJ (the night the prophet ascended to Heaven) 95 The MISTRESS (Kisirani?, lives inside the shop) 37 MKALIKALI (town on return trip, N of large river) 176 MKATA (a village in East-central Tanzania) 121 MNYAPARA WA SAFARI (Foreman of the Journey) 34 MOFA (a pancake-like bread) 25 MOGUL (an Indian Muslim from a power group) 80 MOHAMMED (Aziz’s shopkeeper before Khalil) 202 MOHAMMED ABDALLA (the Mnyapara wa Safari) 34 MOHUN SIDHWA (Kilimanjaro train station master) 57 MOMBASA (port city in SE Kenya) 63 MOROGORO (inland city in eastern Tanzania) 110 MPWELI (a town on return trip, close to the coast) 177 MRIMA (name for mainland facing Zanzibar) 46 MTOTO WA SHETANI (“child of the devil”) 183 MTWARA (sea landing in south of Tanzania) 14 MUKKI-YUKKI (Mukki is a village in India) 74 MUKKI (Indian money lender?) 46 MUSLIN (a delicate cotton cloth from Mosul, Iraq) 109 MZEE HAMDANI (the old gardener) 36 MZUNGU (a European government employee) 78 NABI NUH (prophet Noah) 81 NEEMS (Indian iliac, nimtrees, mahogany family) 20 NYIKA (“bush”, “hinterland”) 71 NYUNDO (Mwene’s chief “courtier” on a journey) 118 OLD MEN ON THE TERRACE (3) 32 OLMOROG (government station ½ up mountain) 81 PEMBA (island off Tanzania, N of Zanzibar) 201 PEMBE (the spirit of the island shrine) 147 POMBE (an African beer made from millet) 75 PRIMUS (a small cooker that burns paraffin) 103 QADHI (magistrate in a Sharia court) 242 QASIDAS (odes) 36 RAJAB (seventh month of Islamic calendar) 100 REHANI (a secured loan) 47 silver RUPEE (16 Annas, Yusuf stole from father) 11 RUMI (a 13th-century Persian poet (?)) 103 SAID (Sultan of the Omanis in times past) 130 SALAAM ALAIKAM (“peace unto you”) 77 SARUNI (soap) 40 SEYIDD (a Muslim of high stature) 20 SHAABAN (8th month of the Islamic calendar) 73 SHABAB (youth) 39 SHAMS (“Sham?”, Syria (?)) 104 SHEBE (former old slave of Zulekha (deceased)) 221 SHUKA (a sash worn in parts of Africa) 82 SIKUFANYIENI MASKHARA (“Dead to the world?) 105 SIMBA MWENE (Mohammed Abdalla’s overseer) 109 SIMI (a knife or sword favored by the jKikuyu) 126 SLEEPING PORTER KILLED BY HYENA (124) SOFALA (formerly the chief port in Mozambique) 130 SUFI (“msufi” - deciduous, flowering tree) 20 SURA (one of 114 “chapters” in the Koran) 95 TAJIRI MKUBWA (rich, big businessman) 5 TAYARI (a city in SE Kenya, cut into ten towns) 130 THIRD STORE (containing contraband) 70 UDI (aloe wood, a perfume from Zanzibar) 37 UNGUJA (largest, most-populated Zanzibar island) 83 USUMBARA HIGHLANDS (north of Kawa) 7 VIBARUA (day laborers for Germans et al)) 6 VIPUSA (“rhino horns”) 189 VUMBA (or FUMBA?) Malina’s childhood town 228 MFIPO (Chatu’s village elder chief on Marungu) 153 WAH (great) 53 WALLAHI (word of oath) 60 WALII (benefactor, guardian) 243 WAUNGWANA (“people of honor”) 99 WANYAMWEZI (Bantu group from Tanzania) 33 WASHENZI (savages who worship demons) 6 WASOMALI (Somali) 33 WAUNGWANA (a cultured freeborn, or patrician) 20 WITU (coastal-ish town in middle Kenya) 51 WOMAN KILLED BY CROCODILE 122 YALLA (“let’s go”, “come quickly”) 98 “YA SIN” (36th sura in the Koran) YUSUF 1 Yusuf’s PARENTS 2 ZANZIBAR (island in north of Tanzania, by Kenya) 14 ZUB (“penis”) 53 ZULEKHA (Aziz’s (first) wife, flirts with Yusef) 217 ZULEKHA’S 1ST HUSBAND 221 ZUMA (some sort of derogatory nickname?) 25 ZUWARDE (I haven’t found the translation) 182
×
×
  • Create New...