First off, a mudafa is a type of noun that could go on forever. A group of nouns becomes a mudafa when they pile on top of each other. A cow is just a noun, but the owner of the cow is a mudafa. Same goes for the house of the owner of the cow. This is all fine and good, you say, but what about when it comes to entities much more precious that livestock? Here's another example: a group of states is a noun, but a group of states that are united is a mudafa. A group of states that are united that belong to America is also a mudafa. Well, that's enough! CIA girl decided that no Egyptian, linguist or not, is going to tell her what the grand ol' US of A is or isn't. She insisted that the United States of America is a proper noun, plain and simple, and don't you dare call her elementary school history teacher a liar, thank you very much.
At first I was amused but as the minutes dragged on, I decided that CIA-girl's point would be best proved with the singing of the National Anthem, I mean let's get straight to the issue, after all, Arabic can wait.
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and here I thought "mudafa" was yet another in a long line of bastardazations of the word "motherfucker".
Oddly enough, with that interpretation, the title of your entry still makes sense.
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