﻿{"id":5119,"date":"2011-03-18T09:28:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2011-03-18T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:28:16","slug":"word-of-the-day-shufti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5119","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: shufti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in the phrase &#8220;have a shufi&#8221; which means &#8220;have a look&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The word comes from the Arabic <em>\u0161ufti<\/em> &#8216;have you seen?&#8217; which comes from the Arabic verb <em>\u0161\u0101f<\/em> to see.<\/p>\n<div>The meaning of the word never occurred to me until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Levant.html\">my recent visit to Syria and Lebanon<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/shufti-slang-term#ixzz1Gs8QlRyS\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in the phrase &#8220;have a shufi&#8221; which means &#8220;have a look&#8221;. The word comes from the Arabic \u0161ufti &#8216;have you seen?&#8217; which comes from the Arabic verb \u0161\u0101f to see. The meaning of the word never occurred to me until my recent visit to Syria and Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5127,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions\/5127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}