The Death of Arabic Names

In Lebanon, we call it sometimes hapsi, right? Which is the old name for Ethiopia. But Ethiopia doesn't call itself anymore of that in Arabic. It's Ethiopia. So wait, so when I when I go and order such habosh, I'm talking about it. Yeah,. Because the word hapsi means the bird, we all got it from Ethiopia. That's that's how because it's habasha, that was the original Arabic name for Ethiopian. And that's where we got it from. The same way why we say the Turkey bird is that the English got it from Turkey. So they call it Turkey, you know, the Egyptians used to

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