حبيبتي

Arabic

Etymology

From حَبِيبَة (ḥabība, “beloved, sweetheart (female)”) +‎ ـِي (-ī, first-person singular possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ħa.biː.ba.tiː/

Noun

حَبِيبَِتِي • (ḥabībaitī) f

  1. first-person singular possessive of حَبِيبَة (ḥabība):
    1. my darling, my beloved (female)
    • 1970, Nizar Qabbani, “تَسْأَلُنِي حَبِيبَتِي [My love asks me]”, in Bassam K. Frangieh & Clementina R. Brown, transl., Arabian Love Poems, published 1999, The Book of Love, page 20:
      تَسْأَلُنِي حَبِيبَتِي
      مَا الْفَرْقُ مَا بَيْنِي وَمَا بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ
      لْفَرْقُ مَا بَيْنَكُمَا
      أَنَّكِ إِن ضَحِكْتِ يَا حَبِيبَتِي
      أَنْسَى السَّمَاءَ
      tasʔalunī ḥabībatī
      mā l-farqu mā baynī wamā bayna s-samāʔi
      lfarqu mā baynakumā
      ʔannaki ʔin ḍaḥikti yā ḥabībatī
      ʔansā s-samāʔa
      My love asks me:
      ‘What is the difference between me and the sky?’
      The difference, my love,
      Is that when you laugh,
      I forget about the sky.

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