أو أول قرية

واو أول سمعة هول

@lawzinaj.bsky.social This felt to me like something out of the coast when she said بيحبِن

Isn't this because people used to learn some songs from bedouins?

ليش إنت بركاوي؟😂 مش سمعان بركي بالجنوب أنا إلا من الممدنين

عَمَل الخير بلكي؟

And finally I like to write دنيا as دنية to accomodate the various pronunciations of the word and the fact that we do add a ta marbouTa in case of iDaafa

bi 2amro

It's all zajal, the one you shared starts as abou l zolof than goes into mijana; the one I shared is 3ateba. Zajal is extremely rich

3al 2add😆

We do use it in the South, usually in the context of تربيح جميلة haha

Cool! Nice to hear from you Salam

triliteral* oops! ma tbanndouni please

it's a videogame console!

Found this comment under the Facebook post; also this ugly tweet using "flipper" in a metaphor

It probably was confined to Beirut and the cities though, so probably our folks in the South didn't know the game + it seems like it might have been associated with casino games and therefore avoided

I think even earlier, the Italian article says the late 60'. I now for sure that it was a thing in Lebanon and the game is called flipper, I looked it up on X (فليبر + some Leb specific words) and found interesting tweets like this one; the Piccadilly opened in the 60' and closed down in 75

I can't see how this meaning could've developed from the Arabic root to be honest.
In Italian, they say "andare in tilt" to express a similar meaning..
So I guess this word might come from the TILT error mechanism in pinball machines! When triggered, the whole machine stops working! Wild if true!