Family Guy - Stewie and his mom
يناير 7th, 2008Family Guy, which is a popular animated show in the United States, is also aired in parts of the Middle East (Kuwait, elsewhere?). This clip shows Stewie and his mother.
The word for mother is أم (umm). Father is أب (ab) or والد (walid). As with most any noun, you can indicate possession by attaching a pronoun suffix to the word. The suffix for first person singular (my) is ي (ee). Thus, to say my father, it’s أبي (abee) or والدي (walidee), and my mother is أمي (ummee).
Stewie is calling his mother (Lois), saying أمي (ummee) (mommy). He also uses some slang, saying “mama”. He also says “yo ma”. This sounds like slang, though in Arabic, using “yo” or “ya” when calling someone (e.g. ya sammy or ya ummee) is a common way of addressing people.
His mother responds, saying وجع (waji’a). I’m not 100% sure if I understand this correctly, but I don’t think there is a direct, literal translation for this in the context here. وجع (waji’a) translates as “pain”, “to voice one’s pain”, commiserate, and as a noun, وجع (waja’) means pain, ache, or ailment. In the English version of this video clip, the mother responds by saying “What!!!”. In the Arabic version, she may be saying that Stewie is being a pain or annoyance.
After the mother responds, Stewie says كَيفَ الحال؟ (kayf hal) - How are you? In the English version, Stewie just says “Hi”. Here is the English version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2jNk57uHGw
