jihbed

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This is apparantly a real Arabic word. The jury is still out on whether that's true [1]. (Maybe an Arabic speaker can verify?) This word means something like "really great".

This word has created a small cult following among NetBSD users because of a series of posts by a person called Kamel Derouiche. This person's English is extremely bad, and reading his texts is always hilarious. His emails always end with a signature

NetBSD is very JIHBED

After a while of poking fun at this, hsaliak decided to ask him what it meant. His response (sic):

[1] jahbad - bright, brilliant, intelligent (Hans Wehr, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1980.) (But obviously Kamel's definition is way more JIHBED.)

References

• A prototypical JIHBED message
• Urbandictionary definition
• Search on Google
• First email on the lists

See also

Jihbed NetBSD LiveCD http://www.jihbed.net/