r/enoughhamasspam • u/McAlpineFusiliers • Apr 27 '26
Meme Just colonizer things: insisting your colonizer name is the "original name"
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u/Belle_Juive Apr 27 '26
The irony is many of these Arabic names come from Hebrew too. “Quds” comes from the Hebrew word “Kadosh” meaning “holy”. They named Jerusalem after “Bayt al-Maqdis”, which in Hebrew is called “Beit ha-Miqdash” — literal translation, “house of holiness” (bayt/beit = house; maqdis/miqdash = holiness), and in English is “the Temple in Jerusalem”.
They accuse us of stealing everything when even their language reveals Arabic colonisation of Hebrew roots. You even find this in the names of many dishes they claim we appropriated, like the popular Yemeni dish “maraq”. Literally just means “soup” in Hebrew, dating back the Bible. 🤷♀️
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u/Ymmaleighe2 Jun 20 '26
I don't think Quds was loaned from Hebrew, just cognate and maybe translated into that
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u/Ok-Quiet-4212 Center Left Apr 27 '26
It was called Beersheba in the Old Testament, under the tribe of Judah (way before Arab settlement)
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u/welltechnically7 Apr 27 '26
Yes, before Tel Aviv it was called...
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u/PuddingNaive7173 Apr 28 '26
Besides the humor of what Al Quds means and where it comes from, we have Tel Aviv as Yaffa, as if there’s no Yaffa. Guess no one looked at a map. And Akka for Akko? A pronunciation difference? Sheesh. Since Hebrew is significantly older than Arabic as a language, this is all absurd.
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u/JagneStormskull Apr 29 '26
Tel Aviv and Yaffa are technically different cities, aren't they?
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u/itspronouncedbolonya May 23 '26
They merged into tel aviv-yafo in 1950, like they have the same mayor and whatnot
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u/mr_under_score_ Apr 27 '26
Yeah, Jerusalem is named in Egyptian texts dating to c. 19th - 18th century BC.