Re: [HCDX] what does "sawa" mean
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Re: [HCDX] what does "sawa" mean




``Together`` is the official translation of sawa, per initial publicity about the service. We in SW have been aware of it for a long time. There have been numerous reports about it in DX Listening Digest the past few months :)


Glenn Hauser


----Original Message Follows---- From: "Robert Foxworth" <rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [HCDX] what does "sawa" mean Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:57:56 -0400

I looked up "sawa" in my 4th edition of Hans Wehr Arabic-English.
Under the s-w- root (where letter s is the "siin" form) there is a
listing for  "  sawaa'  " which is "equality, sameness". I can't find
any such  listing under the S-w- root (where s is the "saad" form).
(note the long "a" form and the hamza, as well, lost in the English
transliteration).

So this program name may be intended to politicize the concept of
muslims being equal to non-muslims.  Just a thought.

Bob Foxworth

>1548 | KUWAIT | VOA Relay, Kabd - Kuwait City, JUL 25 0030-0130
>
>. I did hear an ID that Herman Boel in Belgium confirmed as being
>"Radio Sawa", an entertainment service being run on VOA Kuwait. The signal
>was very strong on peaks. [Connelly*rw-MA]
>




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