Originally Posted by bluetwo
Aren't pronunciations a little weird if you don't know how to read Arabic?
Like they told us the word for halt is Kiff, but it's pronounced like cough... During the first OIF soldiers were going around saying kiff like kif or keef and the people were like :wtf:
well there isn't an arabic word for "halt" but there is for "stop" and it sounds the same as the way you're pronouncing it except with another letter.
يقِف
pronounced "yaqif," the middle letter "qaaw" has a kasra underneath that gives it a short vowel sound like an 'i' like in "kid"