Kharban = rosak/broken
This is an ammi word or (bahasa pasar) in arabic language. What i'm about to write here is a story about how i learn this particular word. It was on the evening of 29th January.. and i was with few friends in d middle of the city centre Amman Jordan. I wanted to get a new phone and my housemate wanted to get a Thallajah (peti sejuk/fridge).. he got what he wanted but not me.. i got a different thing.. i got to learn a new arabic word.. so here goes the story. After my friend got what he wanted, we had to go to the wet market to get some groceries for our 4 days job (tukang masak ni/cook). 1st of all, we were looking for some onions and potatoes. Its really funny how arabs do their job and the way they think. Let me ask you something, would you open a bread stall right beside another bread stall and sell your goods with much higher price while there are not much difference in the quality of your goods with the other shop's? So heres what happen in the wet market. Few minutes in the market, we found alot of the stalls here are selling the same thing, mostly onions and potatoes. So, we had to go around to look for the cheapest price for those things. Finally after a few minutes, we found a stall with the cheapest price but.. right beside that stall, there was this guy standing at his onion stall were trying to offer us his goods but all of them were much expensive then all the others so we move on to the stall beside with the cheapest price. Suddenly just after we moved a step away from the previous stall, the guy shouted to us "Kharban!!anta kharban!!". I asked a friend of mine for the meaning of the word that man was shouting at us and so i learn that the meaning was 'broken'.. but untill today, i havent figure out what was the reason he said that to us..hmmm..still thinking..so thats all about it folks. New vocab for all..Kharban! hahaha..
