you just made me realize where the British slang "bint" for girl comes from... colonialism
Borrowed from Arabic بِنْت (bint, “girl, daughter”), from Proto-Semitic *bint-, used to denote a patronym. The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the 19th century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "girlfriend" or "bit on the side".
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Edit: Bint al-shamsa = girl of the sun, sunshine girl
you just made me realize where the British slang "bint" for girl comes from... colonialism
This is mad clever lol