Arabic names kill me. Most of the non-Mohamud related ones (Ahmed, Mahmoud, etc.) are just words. They name their kids “beautiful,” “pigeon,” “smile,” and even “justice.” I have a student in my conversation class whose name is Batool. She’s one of the better students in the class, but her name keeps throwing me off. Batool means “virgin” in Arabic. Who’d name their kid virgin?
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