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Re: Saddam - It's a wonder that the rag don't tear...
Sorry, I don't know the meaning. The name doesn't appear on any Arabic lists I've checked, but it could well derive from another Middle Eastern language.I did want to note that many people at the time of the 1991 Gulf War were a little puzzled at George Bush's persistent pronunciation of the Iraqi dictator's name as SOD-um instead of the more conventional sah-DOM.Now, Ol' George may have been a bit disconnected at times, but he certainly wasn't uneducated or stupid. So, I eventually concluded that it was deliberate and he did it for its insulting resemblance to "Sodom" and "sodomite". But maybe not...Several years later, I heard what I considered a reliable political "expert" (can't remember who) on public TV comment that the pronunciation WAS deliberately insulting, but that SOD-um (spelling unknown) was a legitimate Iraqi word or slang term meaning "shoeshine boy". So GHWB WAS putting him down, but not in a way that was obvious to Westerners.Anyone out there know if there's any validity to this explanation?- Da.
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when pronounced SAD-um(like adam with an s at the beginning) the name is a name meaning satan in a Mid-Eastern Language or dialect, I was taught this from a Mid-Eastern scholar. And pronounced the other way it means powerful ruler
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Anagram Oracle to the rescue!
'Saddam Hussein' = Human's sad sideAh, and here is something more newsworthy:'Dirty Bomb' suspect Abdullah Al Mujahir arrested = Clumsy, retarded US-Arab jihad bumbler plots a hit.
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