#EveryDayArabic August 26th 2024

Gotta Stay Grindin'

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Here’s a fun #EveryDayArabic.

In English slang we have the term “grinding” whose connotation is to suggest one is “working hard”. Similarly, in Arabic we find the verb qarasha (قرش) whose root means to “grind” or “gnaw”, with qirsh (قِرش) being the word for “shark” (not hard to see the connection). Yet, when conjugated to the morphological form of ifta…