And if so, how do they label headphones, contact lenses etc?

  • @erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works
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    22 years ago

    I didn’t have to scroll too far in Google translate to find that Arabic for left and right is yasir and yamin (in the Latin alphabet, it’s يسار يمين in Arabic which seems to start with different characters anyway) but my guess is that things would be labeled with S and M.

    • @AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      242 years ago

      which seems to start with different characters anyway

      Remember that Arabic is right-to-left—both words start with ي (yeh).

    • Lvxferre
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      72 years ago

      which seems to start with different characters anyway

      It doesn’t - Arabic is written right-to-left, both words start with ⟨ي⟩ (it looks like ⟨ﻳ⟩ there).

    • Deebster
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      22 years ago

      Levantine Arabic says shamal شمال but that’s might be too slangy for labelling.