There are lovely verbs like sara, "to set out at night"; comical ones like tabaadawa, "to pose as a Bedouin"; and simply bizarre ones like dabiba, "to abound in lizards".
Paging through the dictionary one night, I found a word that means "to cut off the upper end of an okra". There are lovely verbs like sara, "to set out at night"; comical ones like tabaadawa, "to pose as a Bedouin"; and simply bizarre ones like dabiba, "to abound in lizards". Dabiba (presumably applied to towns or regions) is medieval, but I wouldn't put it past Dr. Zawahri to revive it.
But really, things serious and comical are like night and day, black and white, yin and yang.
INCREDIBLE! — aysha powell (@little_owl) July 26 , 2012Blown away by an incredibly moving & comical performance of Richard III @The_Globe last night.
PAW was on the scene to capture some of the night's comical highlights.
That was the evening's most comical moment, in a concert involving a bustier made with motorcycle lights.
Ben Ratliff of The New York Times criticized the performance, writing that it was "the evening's most comical moment, in a concert involving a bustier made with motorcycle lights".
If the dream hadn't been so unsettling it might have been almost comical, Crystal thought now, Monday morning, as she updated the calendar of events for Our Lady of Seven Sorrows: Father Paul, so benign and solicitous and eager for approval in waking life, starring as the villain in her dream.
The third goal summed the afternoon up - it was comical.
KFC's "Gifts" Commercial: This commercial is a comical interpretation of a family's Christmas morning featuring gifts from Colonel Sanders instead of Santa.
