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No, seeing as there are no vowels in Arabic, the equivalent is not an English word with vowels, with the vowels removed.

It is a shortened form though, and is equivalent to "Morning!"

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Arabic text has much higher entropy than English. The last two letters in the Arabic word he used (H M) is also the common suffix for "them". That's not strictly equivalent to simply "Morning!" in English.

Maybe the translation algorithm confused "Yisbah-hum" (good morning) with "Yitbah-hum" (Kill them)?

Thank you! all this reading, including the source article, and finally someone gives a likely source for the mistake.

AFAIK, spoken Arabic has vowels, but the script is an abjad with optional vowel markers. So English text written using only the consonants would be a good approximation.

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