Talk:لا باس

RFC discussion: December 2019
Unclear what the definition is, needs standard formatting. DTLHS (talk) 17:01, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The literal meaning is "no problem". It is used in Maghreb both as a question (No problem? i.e. How are you?) and as an answer to that question (No problem i.e. I'm all right). A possible further question is B'zef walla shuyah? (A lot or a little? i.e. Yes, but how well are you really?).
 * "Modern Classical Arabic" synonym, understood from Maghreb to Mashreq: Keyf al-hāl? (How's the health?), Keyfa haluka? [literary] or Keyfa halak? [colloquial] (How's your [man's] health?), Keyfa haluki? [lit.] or Keyfa halik? [coll.] (How's your [woman's] health?), Keyfa halukum? (How's your [several people's] health?) and in that case the answer is hamdullāh [coll.] or al-hamdu lillāhi [lit.] (wfw. Praise [be given] to god!, actually a stereotyped answer giving no actual information about the answerer's state of health). Tonymec (talk) 00:17, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
 * P.S. IIUC the pronunciation ought to be lā baʔs with alif-hamza but the hamza is usually omitted in normal speech. Tonymec (talk) 00:33, 25 December 2019 (UTC)