Congratulations! (?) Translation #7

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Continuing our series of translating emails… Part 7.

AL P.

Al P. wrote:

Assalamu Alaykum Taymanghud (brother).

I hope you can help me find the meaning of this word in Tausug: “CONGRATULATIONS’

Please help me utoh.. I need this word, post ku kasi ha fb kasi my wife just got pregnant… greet aku kanya in tausug..u know what mean.. hope you could help.”

Tausūg101:
Good day Taymanghud and Assalamu Alaykum.

Do you happen to understand Bahasa Sug? or are you a Tausug yourself, too? Sorry I just need to know.

As far as my little knowledge on Bahasa Sūg, there is NO TRANSLATION for the word CONGRATULATIONS… (or maybe there is, but it’s already used long time ago, and I am not aware of it, magmaap tuud. 😦

Anyways, The locals would usually use the original English term in congratulating other people. At time we even say “congrats!” and the like. But if you really want to be more “different” you can use the Arabic term instead. you can say “Mabrook!” to mean congratulations, or better yet “Alhamdulillah!” (praise be to Allah!” for indeed that is the best way to congratulate someone.

I hope I was able to help somehow taymanghud.

Even then, let me say “MABROOK! to you and your wife! ALHAMDULILLAH, Allah had bestowed a very wonderful blessing to both of you! Ma shaa Allah, may Allah keep your family happy and healthy. Ameen.

Salam Kasilasa!

-Ahmad

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-Ahmad (August 2021)