Vegetarian Phrases in World Languages - Middle East- Africa/English

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Afrikaans

Ek is 'n vegetariër - I am a vegetarian
Ek eet nie vleis, hoender of vis nie - I don't eat meat, poultry or fish
Ek hou nie van vleis nie - I don't like meat
Ek eet nie eiers of melk nie - I don't eat milk and eggs
Het julle enige vegetariese geregte? - Do you have any vegetarian dishes?
Ek is lief vir diere, daarom eet ek hulle nie - I love animals, so I don't eat them

Amharic (Ethiopia)

Sega albellam - I don't eat meat

Arabic

Ana Nabatee - I am vegetarian [male]
Ana Nabateeya - I am vegetarian [female]
Mish Akool Lahma walla Ferekh khalis - I don't eat meat or chicken at all
Ana nbattee. Ana laa akul lohhoom. - I am vegetarian. I don't eat any meat.

Armenian

yes/menk` busa'ker=banjara'ker em/enk` (sg./pl.). - [I am/we are] vegetarian
yes/menk` 1:anasun 2:(&spanvatz) anasunits &statsvatz vo(r)yeve nyut` 3:mis 4:yershik 5:hav 6:haveghen 7:dzuk 8:panir 9:kat` 10:karag 11: dzu=havkit` 12:megh(&)r 'chem/chenk` utum//x&mum. - I/we don't eat//drink 1:animals 2:anything from (slaughtered) animals 3:meat 4:sausage 5:chicken 6:poultry 7:fish 8:cheese 9:milk 10:butter 11:eggs 12:honey
yes/menk` u'tum//x&'mum enk` panir/kat`/etc. - I/we do eat//drink cheese/milk/etc.
yes/menk` panir/kat`/etc. u'tum//x&'mum em/enk`. - I/we eat//drink cheese/milk/etc.
yes/menk` si'rum em/enk` anasunner&, n&rants 'chem/chenk` utum. - I/we love animals, I/we don't eat them.

Words separated by = are synonyms, e.g. you can say dzu or havkit`. "ch" as in English "chip"; "s" always sharp (unvoiced) as in "case"; "x" like "ch" in "loch" or Germ. "ach"; "gh" is its voiced counterpart. "&" like "a" in "about" (schwa); p`, t` and k` are aspirated. The apostrophe *preceding* a syllable means that syllable is more strongly stressed; a, e, i, o, u as in Spanish (or Italian), approximately as in part, get (fête), clique, note, Luke, but shorter. [` = ` (grave accent)]

Farsi

Man Giyah jharam - I am a vegetarian
Man gousht nemikhoram - I don't eat meat

Hebrew

Ani tsimchoni(t) - I am a (female) vegetarian.
Ani t'ivoni(t) - I am (female) vegan
V'ani lo ochel(et) chalav o g'vinah. - And I don't eat milk or cheese.
Ani lo ochel(et) dagim. - I don't eat fish
yesh lachem mana tsimhonit? - do you have a vegeterian dish?
yesh basviva misaada tsimhonit? - is there a vegeterian restourant near by?
Basar ze retzach - meat is murder
Ani lo ochel(et) betzim - I don't eat eggs
Ani lo ochel(et) dvash - I don't eat honey
Ani lo mishtamesh(et) be`or - I don't use leather
Ani ohev(et) chayot, az ani lo ochel(et) otan [accent on last syllables] - I love animals, so I don't eat them
most of the people that live in Israel know English well (it's taught as a 2nd language!) so give it a try with people between the ages of 12-65.

Kurdish

Ez gosht naxwim / Mn gosht nakhwim - I do not eat meat.

Malagasy (language of Madagascar)

Izaho tsy mihinan-kena - I don't eat meat

Swahili (East Africa)

More precisely: Kiswahili, the language of the Swahili

Mimi sili nyama walla kuku - I eat neither meat nor chicken
Mimi sili nyama - I don't eat meat
Mimi sili mayai - I don't eat eggs
Mimi sili nguruwe - I don't eat pork
Ng'ombe - beef/cow; Maziwa - milk; Samaki fish

Tigrigna (Eritrea)

Ane siga aybel'en eye. - I don't eat meat
Ane hamli tiray ybel'e. - I eat only vegetable
Ane wala derho aybel'en eye. - I don't even eat chicken.
Ane sebeyti eye. - I am a woman ; ane seb'ay eye. - I am a man.
Siga - meat ; Hamli - vegetable ; Bani - bread
Ane - I
Nsikha - you (male) ; Nsikatkum - you (plural male)
Nsikhi - you (female) ; Nsikatkn - you (plural female)
Nsu - he ; Nsa - she ; Nhna - we
Nsatom - they (male) ; Nsaten - they (female)

Turkish

Vejeteryaným - I am a vegetarian
Et yemiyorum - I don't eat meat
Hic et yiyemem [heech et yee-yeh-mem] - I can't eat any meat
Et suyu bile yiyemem. - I can't even eat meat juices
... yiyemem - I can't eat ...
Et yiyemem - I can't eat meat
Tavuk [tah-vook] - chicken
Pilic [pee-leech] - chicken
Yumurta [yoo-moor-tah] - egg
BalIk [bah-luck] - fish
Etsiz yemek var mI? [Et-seez yeh-mek var muh?] - Do you have any dishes without meat?
Etsiz sebze yemeði - Vegetable dish without meat