u/KaliahVonGraves

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I'm naming my house "Toad Hill" in Arabic. I think.

I want to name naming my house & I think I have settled on an Arabic spin on "Toad Hill." I'm going with the language that sounds right to my ears.

However, I know zero about Arabic.

I ran "Toad Hill" through google translate & got تل الضفادع with the English translation of ​"tal aldafadie​." Then did rudimentary searches online to compare & contrast results.

It seems "tal aldafadie" might translate to "frog hill" which is fine if it does. I'm probably going to condense the phrase to Tal Alda as it has a nice ring to it.

My questions are...

Is literally any of this correct? If so, how does one go about pronuncing "tal aldafadie"? Does the shortened Tal Alda mean anything offensive or terrible in Arabic?

I don't want to be one of those ignorant white people that borrows from another language with zero understanding or context.

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u/KaliahVonGraves — 7 days ago