B
- bâbord
- port (side)
- bacalau
- codfish
- baciar
- kiss
- bagatela
- a trifle. baga+yla dy cwldy. This trifle of a solde. [SLE 70b,
133a]
- bagno
- bath
- baguette
- stick. wcbt fy qlbha wwaHd lbagy+. And I found a stick in it. [SLE 50a]
- baile
- ball (=dance) kan eml wwHad albayyly kbyr. He had arranged a big ball. [SLE
68a]
- bakchich (Turkish)
- tip, bribe
- balla
- (canon-)ball
- ballo
- ball
- banco
- bank
- bandiera
- flag
- banqueroute
- bankrupt. H+a yeayy+w bnqrw+. Until they cry· "bankrupt!"
[SLE 126a]
- baracca
- hut
- barba(r)
- beard [Sch 71]
- barbaresco
- of Barbary
- barba
- beard
- barbaria
- Barbary [Sch 75]
- barbaro
- savage
- barbero
- surgeon [Sch 78]
- barmil
- barrel [Dict] [Sch 72]
- barra
- bar
- barretta
- cap
- baschiar
- go down, lower
- bassar
- lower
- bastimento
- building, ship
- bastonada
- beating [Sch 79]
- bastone
- rod
- bastonnara
- beat, bastonade [CT 27]
- battello
- boat
- bello
- beautiful
- bene
- well
- benedetto
- blessed
- benque
- although
- benvenuto
- welcome
- berbiere
- barber
- bernus (Arabic)
- mantle
- besef, bezef
- (Arabic) much [Sch 73, 85]
- bestia
- animal
- bevidor
- drinker
- bevir
- drink
- bianco
- white
- biancador
- washerman
- bibir
- drink [Sch 85]
- bibliothèque
- library. wdkl byh llbybyw+yk· And he took it into the library.
[SLE 42a] Probably influenced by the pronunciation of ll in southern Spanish as
y.
- biera
- beer
- bilancia
- balance
- biondo
- blond
- bisogna
- need
- bisogno
- need; also:
sign of the future tense [Dict] [Sch 71]
- blu
- blue
- boca
- mouth [Sch 79]
- bollir
- boil
- bombarda
- bomb-vessel
- bombardimento
- bombardment
- bombardar
- bombard
- bomba
- bomb
- bona
- good [The Sultan Sidi Muhammad ibn `Abd Allah speaking to the first
American ambassador to the Barbary States: "As soon as we (Ambassador Thomas
Barclay and Colonel David Franks) bowed to him (the Sultan) he cried: bona!
bona! and began to complain of the treatment he had receiv'd from the
English." Cited in Priscilla H. Roberts and James N. Tull, "Emissary to
Barbary" in Aramco World, September-October, 1998, p. 34 The
meeting took place in June 1786, in Marrakesh. ] See also bono, bonu
infra.
- bonacia
- calm
- bono
- good, well [Sch 71, 78, 81]
- bonu
- good
- borsa
- purse
- botega
- shop
- botone
- button
- boum boum
- (sound made by canon) [Sch 85]
- bourrico
- donkey [Sch 85]
- bouteille
- bottle. wweamrwlw wwaHd lbw+a dlma mn bHar awqyynws. And they
filled for him a bottle with water from the sea called "okeanos". [SLE 51a]
- bove
- bull
- braccio
- arm
- bracciar
- light
- bravura
- heroic deed. $af sydw acwl+an had albrabura dy eml. His master the Sultan
saw this brave act which he had done.
- brillante
- diamond
- brodo spelled brodu
- broth
- brossa
- brush
- bruciar
- burn
- bruqueta
- match
- buba
- plague [Sch 72] cf. abuba
bueno
good [Sch 78]
- buona
- good [Sch 70]
- bullegar
- move
- bureau
- office. anftaH dlbyrw rahw taHt racw. The key of the office is under his