2026-05-07 13:34 UTC
@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
It's ironic given the poem that her actual name is missing and she listed in terms of the men in her life. "Umm Ja'afar" meaning "Ja'afar's mother" and "bint Ali" meaning "Ali's daughter"
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@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social 2026-05-07 13:36
@gbargoud@masto.nyc yeah I noticed that too 😄
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@the_wub@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 20:12
@gbargoud@masto.nyc @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social So THAT is where the pejorative "bint", the British-English slang word for a woman or girl came from. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bint