Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 3

= September 3 =

translation from Moroccan Arabic
I'm trying to figure out the translation of this Moroccan song into English:

‎أنا ما لي فياش اش عليا مني   نقنط من رزقي لاش و الخالق يرزقني ‎أنا عبد ربي له قدرة   يهون بها كل أمر عسير ‎فان كنت عبدا ضعيف القوى   فربي على كل شيء قدير ‎مني آش عليا وأنا عبد مملوك   و الأشيا مقضية ما في التحقيق شكوك ‎ربي نظر فيا و أنا نظري متروك   في الأرحام و الأحشا من نطفة صورني ‎يقول لما شاء كن فيكون   و يبدىء سبحانه و يعيد ‎و يحكم في خلقه ما يشا   و يفعل في ملكه ما يريد ‎في ظلمة الأرحام صورني من نطفة   و بدا لي بالانعام  نعمة من كل صنفة ‎و خلق لي ما و طعام و نعايم مختلفة   و نزلت من غير قميص غطاني و سترني ‎مني آش عليا وأنا عبد مملوك   و الأشيا مقضية ما في التحقيق شكوك ‎ربي نظر فيا و أنا نظري متروك   في الأرحام و الأحشا من نطفة صورني ‎أنا ما لي فياش اش عليا مني   نقنط من رزقي لاش و الخالق يرزقني

Thank you, Mo-Al (talk) 00:51, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I put it into Google Translate, just for fun, and this is what it came up with:


 * I me فياش Ashe Graduate me Nqnt of Rizki Lash and creator Irozkni
 * I Abdel Lord his ability trivialize each command Asir
 * Weak, you're a slave forces Frba on all things
 * Me Ashe graduate and I slave and Wallachia Mqdah doubts in the investigation
 * Lord consider my true and I left in the womb and the Alahha sperm Sorne
 * Say what 'Be willing and Abdye Almighty and restores
 * And governs the creation Yesha and do his property what he wants
 * In the darkness of the womb Sorne of sperm and it seemed to me Palanaam blessing of all classified
 * And create me what food and Naim different and I got out of the shirt غطاني Sturna
 * Me Ashe graduate and I slave and Wallachia Mqdah doubts in the investigation
 * Lord consider my true and I left in the womb and the Alahha sperm Sorne
 * I me فياش Ashe Graduate me Nqnt of Rizki Lash and creator Irozkni


 * That may or may not be of much help. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:52, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * ...this is a good demonstration that Google translate does not work for Moroccan Arabic. Mo-Al (talk) 01:38, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yah. I was thinking that this is how it might turn out if e.e. cummings had tried to write a poem in Arabic. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:48, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Spoken Moroccan colloquial Arabic is strongly divergent from Classical or literary standard Arabic in a number of respects, and can't be written adequately with the unmodified Classical Arabic alphabet... AnonMoos (talk) 03:13, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * You could try asking on ar:ويكيبيديا:الميدان/لغويات. Lesgles (talk) 20:54, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

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Is there a word for "transcribing" characters (for example in Chinese) to a computer from an image (as in the question above) so that they can be manipulated? 70.162.10.166 (talk) 03:48, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * When a computer does it (and usually from a scanned image), it's called Optical character recognition. Lesgles (talk) 03:52, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Copying. Sleigh (talk) 11:38, 5 September 2012 (UTC)