I searched for arabic dictionaries that took latin transliteration as input, but without success.  I searched for transliteration guides so I could write in arabic to use the standard dictionaries, but without success.  I also read a few 'teach yourself' arabic courses.  But in the end, after failing linguistically, I rejected all of this knowledge, took another look at the sentence structure and guessed.  Gandalf to Bilbo.
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				"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it not?"
			
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