Vlürch wrote:Anyway, I heard "Arabia" at 2:10
That's odd; I heard "Beijing" at exactly the same spot.
and 3:41
That's a verb (modifying a noun).
"hayat" at 1:46 and 2:15
That's because if a noun in Tamil or Malayalam ends in /am/ in nominative case, it ends in /
at̪t̪in/ in genitive/possessive case, and the noun at these two times (don't remember whether it's the same noun or not) happened to have the sound /aj/ before that ending.
"muhabbat" at 2:28 and 3:53 (maybe 4:09 too, although without the final T, just after what sounds like "russii"... something about loving Russia? ._.)
All three of those are the ending of one word combined with the beginning of another. The one around 2:28 sounds like it has something to do with a Sanskrit loanword that literally means 'face' [muha] followed immediately by something about looking ([paːr] means 'look!' but stops are voiced between vowels). [muha] and similar words are used in a lot of compounds in Tamil and Malayalam, e.g. in Malayalam, [t̪ɔˈrəmukʰəm] 'port' < /t̪urajkku/ 'open!" + /mukʰam/ 'face'. (I'm not terribly confident about the location of stress in any words in Malayalam or Tamil btw because I think prosody interferes a lot with it).
At 3:53 and 4:09, she's saying [səˈ
muːhə] 'society' (Sanskrit loanword) followed I think by some form of [
ˈʋaːɻʋɯ] which I think might mean 'praise'. At 4:09, she said [oˈɾu], which is the indefinite article ('a'), followed by some noun phrase beginning with [ˈsiːnə səˈmuːhə] 'Chinese society'.
"haram" at 3:04 and 3:25 following "iman" at 3:24.
[n̪əˈ
həɾəm] is a Sanskrit loanword meaning 'city' (compare e.g.
Gandhinagar). Around both 3:04 and 3:25, she's saying [ˈmaːn̪əhəɾəm], which means 'great city' or perhaps 'metropolis', from [məˈhaː] (as in maharaja) > [maː] + [n̪əˈhəɾəm]. Around 3:24-3:25, she says something like [iː ˈmaːn̪əhəɾəm] 'this metropolis'.
I also thought I heard "khalil" like maybe half a dozen times.
Well, that's not surprising. /kaɭil/ is just the combination of the plural suffix (/kaɭ/) and the locative suffix (/il/).
Also, "nirvana" at 1:33
I heard a compound noun at that point, something perhaps having to do with [n̪iːr] 'water, juice, liquid'.