Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Mar 12, 2009 16:48
15 yrs ago
Arabic term
اسكراج
Arabic to English
Social Sciences
Telecom(munications)
for prepaid mobile phone service, to add more credit to the account, we need recharge cards.
بطاقة الشحن
بطاقة التعبئة
بطاقة إعادة الشحن
Does اسكراج mean "recharge card"? Is this word used to mean "recharge card" or something else?
thanks in advance!
بطاقة الشحن
بطاقة التعبئة
بطاقة إعادة الشحن
Does اسكراج mean "recharge card"? Is this word used to mean "recharge card" or something else?
thanks in advance!
Proposed translations
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| 1 +4 | scratch |
zax
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| 5 | لوتارية ، ورقة يانااصيب |
nevine ibrahim
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| 4 | Scratch |
Spiridon
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References
| سكراتش |
Saleh Dardeer
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Proposed translations
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scratch
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Bubo Coroman (X)
: http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&q=mobile top-up scratch ca...
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Thanks, Deborah
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Stephen Franke
: "Arabish" expression - In many countries in the ME, subscribers to mobile phone services (i.e., Jawwal, Mobili in KSA) buy time-cards; the user must scratch off an affixed label for the data to enter and activate the newly-purchased minutes of service.
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Thanks, Stephen
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Alaa Zeineldine
: Quite possible, like many other arabized terms used colloquially. The word is then probably اسكراتش
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Thanks, Alaa
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Saleh Dardeer
: I am pretty sure that a Sudanese translator in a forum said that recharge cards are called in Sudan "سكراتش" because they scratch the card to know the number of recharge. SEE my reference below!
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Thanks, Saleh
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Comment: "شكرا جزيلا لكم جميعا"
10 hrs
لوتارية ، ورقة يانااصيب
a card that has a covered spot that is to be scratched and to reveal whether a prize has been won or not
3 days 3 hrs
Scratch
The phonetics of the word in Arabic is exactly the pronunciation of Scratch in english
Reference comments
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Saleh Dardeer
Native in Arabic
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Reference:
سكراتش
In this search, you would find the word is commonly used to refer to recharge cards in Sudan
http://www.google.com/search?q=اسكراتش سودان&btnG=Search&hl=...
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Note added at 6 hrs (2009-03-12 23:46:28 GMT)
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At last, I got the link from which I knew this information. Unfortunately, it appears in the search results, but when I try to open the link I got a message that such a site contains malwares and may harm my computer.
It was a discussion on how to translate "prepaid call card"; you can see these words in the search results
و فاتنى اننا فى السودان نختصرها _ حتى العامة منا _ بقولنا أسكراتش لأن اول توجيهات استخدام البطاقة تطلب منك ان تكشط
scratch ..... prepaid call card
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q...
Good Luck!
http://www.google.com/search?q=اسكراتش سودان&btnG=Search&hl=...
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Note added at 6 hrs (2009-03-12 23:46:28 GMT)
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At last, I got the link from which I knew this information. Unfortunately, it appears in the search results, but when I try to open the link I got a message that such a site contains malwares and may harm my computer.
It was a discussion on how to translate "prepaid call card"; you can see these words in the search results
و فاتنى اننا فى السودان نختصرها _ حتى العامة منا _ بقولنا أسكراتش لأن اول توجيهات استخدام البطاقة تطلب منك ان تكشط
scratch ..... prepaid call card
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&q...
Good Luck!
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