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  • When the Shaykh Mohammed sits with me, or I climb up into his little shop for the purpose of receiving a lesson from him, he is quite at his ease, reading when he likes, or making me read, and generally beginning each lecture with some such preamble as this34: — “Aywa! aywa! aywa! 35” —

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Uploaded: 2010-05-29 aywa ya ghazawiya HAMAS NASHEAD_نشيد أيوا يا غزاوية

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  • J o u j a ™ said ... unique honey aywa 3ashat el 1st; p

    Safat: The KuwaitBlogs' Aggregator 2008

  • We learn a few new words every day: shey—tea; ahowah—coffee, which is similar to but slightly different from aywa—yes: words breathed in and sent flying from the back of the throat, and we mouth them to each other, correcting each other’s accent, emphasis, matching these words eagerly to Mr. Omar Abu Halaweh’s English.

    The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

  • We learn a few new words every day: shey—tea; ahowah—coffee, which is similar to but slightly different from aywa—yes: words breathed in and sent flying from the back of the throat, and we mouth them to each other, correcting each other’s accent, emphasis, matching these words eagerly to Mr. Omar Abu Halaweh’s English.

    The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

  • We learn a few new words every day: shey—tea; ahowah—coffee, which is similar to but slightly different from aywa—yes: words breathed in and sent flying from the back of the throat, and we mouth them to each other, correcting each other’s accent, emphasis, matching these words eagerly to Mr. Omar Abu Halaweh’s English.

    The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

  • We learn a few new words every day: shey—tea; ahowah—coffee, which is similar to but slightly different from aywa—yes: words breathed in and sent flying from the back of the throat, and we mouth them to each other, correcting each other’s accent, emphasis, matching these words eagerly to Mr. Omar Abu Halaweh’s English.

    The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

  • [I take "aywah" (as I would read the word) to be a different spelling for "aywa" = yes indeed, which according to Spitta Bey, Gr.p. 168 is a contraction of "Ay (Í) wa'lláhi," yes by Allah.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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