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Title: Arabic help needed
Post by: davidships on September 05, 2017, 08:26:37 PM

Can any members assist with names of vessels in Arabic?  It would be a pity to lose some interesting images because we cannot make out the name.

For example, a set of photos of Egyptian ferries on the Suez Canal show no usable ID in western alphabets.  It may be that the Arabic inscriptions are the operator rather than the name, but it would be helpful to know!

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729961
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729988
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729993
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2730006

So, who can help?  Or know someone else who can?

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: husni on September 06, 2017, 02:05:26 AM

more or less

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729988 is MAADIYAH 8
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2730006 is MAADIYAH AL RASWAH 11
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729993 is MAADIYAH AL QOZROH

fm google i found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maadi

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: husni on September 06, 2017, 02:17:30 AM

Quote from: husni ibrahim nasution on September 06, 2017, 02:05:26 AM

more or less

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729988 is MAADIYAH 8
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2730006 is MAADIYAH AL RASWAH 11
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729993 is MAADIYAH AL QOZROH

fm google i found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maadi

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729961 is about AL ADBAH 288

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: davidships on September 06, 2017, 08:54:50 AM

Thanks Husni.  You are a star!

Only to note that digits do not reverse.  The number in this one is eight hundred and eighty two
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2729961

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: husni on September 06, 2017, 01:37:47 PM

Thank you Mr david
When i was junior school learn arabic language that read fm right to left☺

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: Sydney Sinclair on September 06, 2017, 04:43:03 PM

Hi thanks for your help will update names and add a few more for your translation
Cheers Sydney

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: davidships on September 06, 2017, 07:30:17 PM

Yes Husni, of course your teachers got it just right.
And that applies to numbers too, but eastern Arabic is much more logical than the western way as you start with the unit, then the tens, then the hundreds etc.
so in this example in right-to-left-reading Arabic it is "two + eighty + eight hundred"

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: davidships on September 06, 2017, 09:34:02 PM

And another:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2731021 (http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2731021)
Suspect that may the name of the operator/owner

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: Sydney Sinclair on September 06, 2017, 09:45:41 PM

Hi dont want to be a pain but as I said before I have  a few more ships to put on all with Arabic names
Will put on a few at a time so as not to be bother.
Cheers Sydney.

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: Sydney Sinclair on September 10, 2017, 09:58:06 PM

Hello have added a few more photos of shipping in Port Said that need names added or translated.

Cheers Sydney.

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: husni on September 11, 2017, 11:56:14 AM

Had post comments on photos

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: davidships on January 15, 2018, 12:20:03 AM

Another one needing help:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2798237

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: husni on January 15, 2018, 12:23:32 PM

Quote from: davidships on January 15, 2018, 12:20:03 AM

Another one needing help:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2798237

AL MASDIYAH SINAA 4

Title: Re: Arabic help needed
Post by: Robert J Smith on January 15, 2018, 01:19:33 PM

Whats wrong with this forum post?
It takes ages to open, a couple of minutes and I get a status "connecting"

Only this post, all others open as usual. Tried this one a few times and always the same.