My grandma used to say (in Achomi, my heritage language): herr az berr nāfahmedāy هِر از بِر نافَهمِدای 'he can't tell his hirr from his birr' She explained it as referring to the similarity between the two words when written down in Perso-Arabic script:

A large fishing net in Bahrain is called ġazil غزل, pl. ġzūl غزول, i.e. 'spun or woven thing'.

Four people killed in a US-Israeli drone strike, and two of them are my distant relatives, from my ancestral village. They were just hiking in the mountains. Age 14 and 17. This is such shit.

The unthinkable happened. US-Israeli bombs have damaged the Qajar palace complex of Golestan in central Tehran. The hall of mirrors is damaged. 200 year old wooden panels are destroyed. I have no idea what else. This is now personal.

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Dang drone sounded like it was right above our house, I was bracing for impact

The same verb means 'to close' in Bahrain and eastern Saudi. bannad, ybannid, etc From Hindi-Urdu band 'closed', from Persian band- 'to close'.

Looks like Qabus will be getting an email from the plagiarism office

The only ones in Bahraini Arabic I know of (but are now old-timey and obsolete): bulīsxāna 'police station' karxāna 'sewing machine'

Bahraini Arabic word of the day ʕār, yʕūr 'to double over' خلاني اعور من الضحك xallāni āʕūr min iḏ̣-ḏ̣iḥik 'He made me double over with laughter' (I've only ever heard it in the present tense)

Earliest attestation is in a verse from the 10th century Baghdadi cookbook Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh: وأركبت ساف لحم فوق أليته وساف من بصل حلو ومن تمن 'A layer of meat underneath of which lies a layer of its own fat, and another of sweet onion, another of rice'

Another one (almost) is: Ar. ʕayn 'eye; spring' MP. čašm 'eye', čašmag 'spring'

Twitter sucks (doesn't send notifications to people I reply to and wastes my time), and I remembered that this place exists. Wow, a lot of names I haven't seen in ages here