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Arabic Tongue Twisters

1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
www.tongue-twister.net/ar.htm © 1996-2018 by Mr.Twister

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al mesh'mesh dah mish mien meshmeshkum wikamah al mesh'mesh dah mish mien meshmeshnah.

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roukhi we roukhik ya roukhi roukhain be roukh matrakh ma troukh roukhik roukhi bet roukh!

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Arnab nattat men manwamha tabgha manwam gheer manwamha.

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Balah ta'allaq taht qal'it Halab.

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Klit Khyara oukhalit Khyara laachaya

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hadal mish mish mish min mish mishna

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Daq al-bab
Kaloo, "Mean?"
Kaloo, "Amin"
Kaloo, "Malak?"
Kaloo, "l-hajji"
Kaloo, "Malha?"
Kaloo, "Mawtat"
Kaloo, "Balla?!"
Kaloo, "Walla."
Kaloo, "Hakni!"
Kaloo, "Yalla!

8

Tabagna tabag takum.
Lamma tabagna ja yetbug tabakum, liga tabakum tabig tabagna

9

Teen darna min teen dar toag, wa teen dar toag min teen darna

10

Laa wala balla wallahi!

11

Khamees comash khashem Habash, habash comash khashem Khamees.

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Larry wara larry wara larry...

13

Tarik teg taki

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Hutt el turschi bitschies el schurti

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Khait hareer ala hait khaleel.

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Battatna battat baten battatkom,
tegdar battatkom etbot baten battatna
methel ma battatna battat baten battetkom.

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kasab afasna kasar afas asabna ye2dar asab afaskom yeksar afas asabkom zay ma asab afasna kasar afas asabna?

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arnab anwar nat fe manwar anwar.

19

wa7id abou kirsh, abil wa7id abou kirsh, galuh: "3indak kirsh?"
galuh: maftikirsh !

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طربوش تطربشنا به وطربوش ما تطربشنا به قوم يا متطربش وتطربش بالطربوش الذي لم نتطربش به

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Hosam haseb hisab Hassen

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Ihna Indana Baqra, wakhalti baraka Indaha Baqra, Ihna dabahna baqaratna,wakhalti baraka dabahat bakarataha, telaat maraqa raqabat wakhalti baraka attam min maraqa raqabat baqratna

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Karton tekartanabu yegdar shaikh almitkartineen yitkartan bikartoon matikartanabu

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Ihna Dabahna Bagretna elbarga, Dar el-borga dabaho bagrethom elbarga, telaat maraget lahmet ragbet bagretna elbarga atyab men maraget lahmet ragbet bagrethom elbarga

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Shajret Natesh, Jeet Antesh(h)a, Mannatshatesh !

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Ana Ma Statyastaksh, Ma Testatsyesneesh !

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khalti basima basbisitli basbosa bilsamna wil sokar bas ya khosara til'it sokhna lasa'itni fi lisani

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Deak sagahfe we deak sagahfengah nat el deak el sagahfe nagah el deake el sagahfengah gahfe yakeder el deak el sagahfe yangahe el deak el sagahfengah zay el deak el sagahfengah nagh el deak el sagahfe gafe?

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طرقتُ البابَ حتى كلمتني، فلما كلمتني كلمتني، قالت: يااسماعيلُ صبراً قلتُ:يا أسماء عيلَ صبري

taraqto al baba hatta kallamatni, fa lamma kallamatni kallamatni. qalat: ya isma'ilo sabran, qolto: ya Asma 3eela sabri.

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أسعد سعيد صابر صعد سور سعد صايل

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Khamees kumash khashim Habash

Kuwaiti

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Tabakhna fi matbahkum tabkhatna.

Rough Translations

  1. up These apricots ar not our apricots. The place of these apricots is not the place of our apricots
  2. up My soul and your soul are one soul. Wherever your soul goes, my soul also goes!
  3. up A rabbit jumped to another bed looking for another.
  4. up Dates were hung over the castle of Halab (Aleppo).
  5. up She was eating one cucumber and left one cucumber for Shaya.
  6. up These apricots are not from our apricots
  7. up He knocked on the door He said, "Who?" He said, "Amin" He said, "What's your problem?" He said, "The old woman" He said, "What's her problem?" He said, "She's dead" He said, "Really?!" He said, "Really" He said, "Follow me!" He said, "Let's go!
  8. up Our plate came to sit on top of yours. When he came he found you plate on top of him
  9. up Our house's clay is from toag's house clay, and toag's house clay is from our house's clay...
  10. up No, you, for god's sake I swear!
  11. up Khamees catches the nose of Habash, Habash catches the nose of Khamees.
  12. up A lorry after a lorry after a lorry...
  13. up Tarik hits (is hitting?) Taki
  14. up Put the sour vegetables (?) in the pocket of the policeman
  15. up A silk thread on Khaleel's wall.
  16. up Our duck blew up your duck's stomach, can your duck blow up our duck's stomach like our duck blew up your duck's stomach?
  17. up Our sugar canes broke our sugar canes' basket. Could your sugar canes brake your sugar canes' basket like our sugar canes did?
  18. up Anwars (arabic name) rabbit jumped into Anwars court.
  19. up One fat man with a big fat belly, met another fat man with a big fat belly, he said "Do you have a big fat belly?" The man replied: "I don't think so!
  20. up There is a tarboosh, that we have set up, and a tarboosh, that we have not set up. Stand up tarboosh-wearer, and set up the tarboosh that we have not set up. German: (Da ist) ein Tarboush, den wir aufgesetzt haben, und ein Tarboush, den wir nicht aufgesetzt haben. Steh auf, Tarboush-Träger, und setz den Tarboush auf, den wir nicht aufgesetzt haben.
  21. up Hosam counted Hassan's account
  22. up We have a cow, and my aunt Baraka has a cow. We slaughtered our cow, and our aunt Baraka slaughtered her cow. The soup of our cow was tastier than than of my aunt Baraka's cow.
  23. up A cardboard in a cardboard, can you, the master of the cardboards, be a cardboard?
  24. up We killed our spotted cow, Al-Borga family also killed their spotted cow. The soup made from the meat of the neck of our spotted cow came much tastier than the soup made from the meat of the neck of Dar Al-Borga's spotted cow !
  25. up A bush tree, I tried to pull it out, but it did not go out !
  26. up Iam not making a fool of you, don't make a fool of me !
  27. up aunt basima prepared me some basbosa (an arabian
    dessert) with sugar and margarine but unfortunatly it was too hot and I burnt my tongue!
  28. up A rooster (whith the name of) Saghfe jumped on the second one (called Sagahfengah) and beat him up. Can the rooster Sgahfangah jump on the rooster Sagahfe and beat him up like the rooster Sagahfe beat the Sagahfangah?
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  33. up We got seven fezzes from the fezzes maker. Tell me, O fez-man, can you make for us seven fezzes the same as the ones we got from the fezzes maker.
  34. up We got seven pins from the pins maker. Tell me, O pin-man, can you make for us seven pins the same as the ones we got from the pins maker.
  35. up I knocked the door until my arm hurts, she said: Isma'il wait. I said: Asma, I've lost my patience.
  36. up Asaad Saied Saber climbed Saad Sayel's fence.
  37. up Khamees caught Habash's nose
  38. up We cooked our dish in your kitchen.

shukran - شكرا

Riham Abdullah, Salah Ahmed, Anwar Al-Duwailah, Bader Al-Fadhel, Luqman al-Hakim, Faisal Al-Kamali, Ahmed Alazmi, Suzan AlQahtani, Alamir Alsakka, Ghanomi Ashi, Khalid Baqer, Adel El Sayed, Dalia Elmekki, Iamis Isk, Brandy Jones, Fouad Khoury, Maguy Klaissner, Martin Korsch, Ali Madani, Alaoui Mohamed, Saadiya Nali, Don Omran, Nigel Parry, Dalia Samak, Mohammed Thiab, Kerstin Wilsch, Zosia Zielinska

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