Arabian Protocol

This post comes due to popular demand – both from non-Arabic speakers and Arabic speakers with low exposure to the protocol-

I’d like to mention that the majority of the terms are in the Emarati dialect – which can differ slightly from other dialects in the Gulf region and largely from other Arab dialects. I’ll also mention that I’ve kept these all in the male context (the masculine), those familiar with the Arabic language -even on a basic level- can change the words accordingly – I might have both options if I free myself up and sit down and do it

From an anthropological point of view, I feel it speaks volumes about our society that we have such a structured way of conversing and socializing, from a high level like celebrating festivities, down to a structured manner of addressing someone’s fresh haircut

In any case, I’ll try my best to keep this a live document, since I really can’t remember all the terms in one sitting – I’ll simply update it as we go along, and feel free to recommend any term that I’ve missed out on or that needs to be changed. Also, I apologize for the formatting issues, I’m still trying to create a good union between Word 2007 and WordPress.

Without further due: