Footah sits on the Toilet

Meaningful Words

Bazin (Libyan) - Libyan food made of barley. You eat it by first digging your hand deep into the sticky, starchy and saucy barley.
Basin (ilonggo) - Stress is the same as "Bazin"; toilet bowl.
Footah (Libyan) - table cloth, but usually placed on the floor during mealtime.
Footah with capital "P" (Tagalog slang) - wild beast/animal, or something/someone else.

Im looking forward to telling my mother that here in Libya, you dig your hand deep into the "bazin"...into that sticky, starchy, saucy thing, and...I also wonder how my mother in law would react if i tell her that in the Philippines, the "footah" sits on the "bazin" while in Libya, people always put the "footah" under the "bazin."


Gasul (Libyan) - brand name of a laundry soap
Gasul (Filipino) - brand name of a cooking gas

(Boy, was i amazed to see that brand in a box!)

If you ask someone "Wen?" in Liby, you will be answered with a direction or a location. Wen means where. "Shino?" means what. "Sino?" in Filipino, means who.

If I tell a Libyan that Filipinos smoke "Sigarilyo", it would be a shocker. Whaaaat??? Filipinos smoke cockroach?
Sigarilyo (though pronounced as Sigrillo) means cockroach.

Here, the women are "ok" and if you sing "la la la la la" to any tune, people will stop, look at you, and wonder what's gotten into your head, saying " no! no! no! no!"

La (Libyan) - No; as to "no, don't do that" or "no, its not that" (have not or no more is "Mahfish")Bahi (Libyan) - Ok, as in OK