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Trash vs. Garbage - is there a difference?
القمامة مقابل الزبالة، هل هناك فرق؟
Well, my grandmother taught me that trash means plastic, leaves, metal, tires, wood,
في الحقيقة، علمتني جدتي أن القمامة تشمل البلاستيك، أوراق الأشجار، المعادن، الإطارات،الخشب، إلى آخره.
etc, and garbage means food waste - I guess what we might now call compost. This linguistic distinction wasn't something I'd ever learned in school - I mean, to me,
والزبالة تعني فائض الطعام. أعتقد ما نسميه في الوقت الراهن السماد. هذا الاختلاف اللغوي لم أكن لأتعلمه في المدرسة
this is a trash can and this is a garbage can. But the Oxford English Dictionary records "trash" as originally meaning broken or torn pieces of wood, twigs, splinters, cuttings from a hedge, straw, etc. while "garbage"
أعني، بالنسبة لي، هذا سلة قمامة وهذه سلة زبالة. لكن بالنسبة لقاموس إكسفورد الإنجليزي فإن المعنى الأصلي لكلمة " القمامة" أي قطعة مكسورة أو ممزقة سواء خشب، أغصان شظايا زجاج، قش، إلى آخره. بينما "الزبالة" تعني أساسًا
originally meant giblets of a fowl or entrails and waste parts of an animal. In fact, the earliest record of the word "garbage" in English is in a fifteenth-century cookbook recipe for giblets: "Take fayre garbagys of chykonys, as þe hed, þe fete, þe lyuerys, an þe gysowrys; washe hem clene, an caste hem in a fayre potte."
أحشاء الطيور أوأمعاء الحيوانات. في الحقيقة، أول سجل لمعنى كلمة "زبالة" ففي اللغة الإنجليزية، هي في وصفة كتاب طبخ في القرن الخامس عشر بمعنى أحشاء:"خذ زبالة"، أي أحشاء الدجاجة مثل الرأس، الأرجل، الكلية، الأمعاء، وأغسلهم جيدًا ثم ضعهم في وعاء مع ماء مغلي
And so forth.
وأضف الملح والفلفل والبهار.
So grandma was right! These days, however, many of us in the US use the words 'garbage' and 'trash' interchangeably.
إذًا كانت جدتي مُحقة! لكن هذه الأيام، يستخدم معظمنا في الولايات المتحدة كلمتي "زبالة، قمامة" بشكل متبادل.
And if you live in the British Isles... well, Rubbish.
وإن كنت تعيش في جزر بريطانيا، أضف كلمة نفاية. ترجمة: فريق أترجم @autrjim
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