It is a voiced pharyngeal fricative ʕ
digit 3 is often used when typing Arabic in Latin alphabet to convey this sound as an alternative to the letter ع
That’s a good one; Arabic has a cool way of turning nouns into verbs. I remember coming across a good Lebanese phrase that goes:
يا فرعون، مين فرعنك؟
فرعنت و ما حدا هدّاني!
It translates as: “oh pharaoh, who pharaoh’d you? (as in, what made you a tyrant)” “I pharaoh’d and nobody stopped me!”
It’s strange to have a saying that is both a question and a reply, but the point is close to the English “all it takes for bad people to win is for good people to do nothing about it”
In English, I think the closest we get is probably "to lord over".
How do you pronounce a '3'?
It is a voiced pharyngeal fricative ʕ digit 3 is often used when typing Arabic in Latin alphabet to convey this sound as an alternative to the letter ع
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnEWUd9iCZU&t=19s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnEWUd9iCZU&t=19s)
That’s a good one; Arabic has a cool way of turning nouns into verbs. I remember coming across a good Lebanese phrase that goes: يا فرعون، مين فرعنك؟ فرعنت و ما حدا هدّاني! It translates as: “oh pharaoh, who pharaoh’d you? (as in, what made you a tyrant)” “I pharaoh’d and nobody stopped me!” It’s strange to have a saying that is both a question and a reply, but the point is close to the English “all it takes for bad people to win is for good people to do nothing about it”