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Kissing in Syria: Not That Easy

2021-02-07T15:10:18.589Z


Just kissing your girlfriend when you feel like it would be impossible in Syria. Any approach therefore requires sophisticated planning.


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Today I give you a kiss!

Do you think the word "Bussi" is a word from the south of Germany and Austria?

Then you should know that the “kiss” in Arabic means “Baussi”.

I suspect that a loanword from the Middle East could have illegally immigrated to Europe.

It says on the net that the »Bussi« found its way into the German language in the 16th and 17th centuries.

When did the Ottomans stand at the gates of Vienna?

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Samer Tannous

was a university lecturer in the Syrian capital Damascus.

Since December 2015 he has lived with his wife and two daughters in Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony, where he works as a French teacher.

Together with his friend Gerd Hachmöller, he writes about his attempts to understand the customs of his new German homeland.

I was completely surprised when I found the Bussi in a German dictionary.

In addition to kissing the cheek, kissing the tongue, kissing goodbye and greeting, you can also give a kiss in Germany.

And a horse kiss that doesn't taste quite so sweet.

What doesn't exist in German, on the other hand, is the kiss on the eye.

The phrase "I kiss your eyes" is an expression of the greatest enthusiasm for another person in Arabic.

In the schoolyard I once heard adolescent students say as a token of appreciation:

"Dude, I kiss your heart!"

Perhaps that's a slightly slipped translation.

In the dialect of the Aleppo region they say: "I kiss your soul."

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