Apparently the lights in the letters L, M and A in the Islamabad Airport sign once went out, treating new arrivals to the news that it IS A BAD AIRPORT.
Good pun, but i can’t help myself:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/اسلام_آباد#Urdu
اسلام اباد in urdu, literally translates to “Islamic area”
The اسلام (Isla:m) part comes from… the arabic word, duh lol
The اباد (a:ba:d) part comes from the PIE root *peh₂-, descending from middle/classical persian and then urdu.
The root just means “to protect, ward or shepherd” which leaves a lot of room for interpretation. The persian words mean thriving/populous (so does urdu).
There are also many derived (and recognized) words from it: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peh₂-#Derived_terms Is pretty interesting to look at.
Do note it’s not like i really know too much of what i’m talking about, i just love this stuff.
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Sorry but you deserved it, cool facts tho
I got YDId out of YPTB 😔
That’s really cool, thank you for sharing, especially the derived words from proto-indo-european, very interesting!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
😊 Just glad i got to talk about it lol
Fellow linguistics nerd
I was totally going to ping you to come to the comments, glad to see you’re already here!
Haha, i don’t recall discussing too much about stuff like this when you were active on matrix :p Either way, glad to hear it :D
By the way, how’s your hand now? Hope you’re doing better now
We talked about your languages and where you’re from. I remember stuff sometimes.
Thanks for asking- it’s healing! Only a few more days before I can get the stitches out!
Or the question if the llama behaved badly. Again.
Isllama bad? No! Islamagood!
Eat the food Tina! -Napoleon Pakistan maybe
Llama mischievous bad
(Dalai) Lama mischievous good
