Fremen War Cries

[gunner154]

can someone tell me all the Fremen war/battle cries?

those like ya hya chouhada, etc

can someone give me a list of them as well as the defination of it

[Vanguard3000]

Many of them are in the Terminology at the end of Dune.  I'll list the ones I remember.

Ya Hya Chouhada! - "Long live the fighters!"

Hal Yawm - ???

Kul Wahad - "I am profoundly stirred" (R.M. Mohaim uses this, but I believe it's a Fremen term as well)

HAII YOH! - "Foreward!" (worm steersman's call)

Bi-La Kaifa - "Nothing further needs to be said" (Often used religiously, like "Amen")

[nemafakei]

Naib: Yes, Sir

Hal Yawm: Now, at last, from Ya (the immediate now) - already form (Lat: iam).

[quoudam72]

He asked for battle cries..........

[Vanguard3000]

He asked for battle cries..........

Yeah, but YHC is really the only battle cry (well, the only one I can remember right now, anyway).

[gunner154]

that's it?

[Acriku]

Another is Muad'Dib. Muad'Dib! Muad'Dib!

[Mahdi]

Niab is a title given to those who have sworn never to be captured alive, and over time it eventually became the title of the leader of a sietch.  It doesn't mean "Yes, sir".

[nemafakei]

Yes, Naib is the sietch leader, so it is effectively "Yes, Sir" when used in the context of orders being acknowledged.

[Mahdi]

Um, no it isn't:)

[Digital Guerrilla]

What about the Battle Cry from the Lynch movie, what were the Fremen warriors saying anyone know I can never really tell?

[Vanguard3000]

In the scene where they're all in that auditorium, I think they're just saying "Maud'Dib".

[Mahdi]

You mean when they yell out CHA!?  Thats jsut to fire the weirding modules.

[dportela]

It's because they all had the hots for CHA!ni.  ;D

[Vanguard3000]

LOL @ Dportela

Has anyone noticed that most of the Fremen say something like "chaaAAA-SUYUK!", whereas Chani says something like "maaAAA-DI!".

[Acriku]

Correct me if I am wrong, but in Dune the book, they realize that Muad'Dib the word works along with Cha!, while using the weirding modules. Then they all start saying Muad'Dib.

[Digital Guerrilla]

Thanks Mahdi, I thought they were saying Cha but I also thought other words were being said at the same time. I do not remember the weirding modules being in any of Herbert's books where does it appear?

[Acriku]

Where Muad'Dib is training the Fremen for the final battle?

[Usul]

There not in any just the film (which I haven't seen :'().

[Acriku]

Curse the poison movies inject into us to mix things up!

[quoudam72]

Although the weirding modules are not in Herbert's book I think the addition and use of them in the Lynch movie is clever.

[Acriku]

You know it's kinda weird that since I have read the book twice and saw movie 5 times that no weirding modules are in the book.  Is there a dvd version of Dune?

[exatreide]

Yea go check ebay or amazon. And no the weairding moduls were only in the movie.

[Acriku]

The DVD has to rock :) Thanks for info.

[exatreide]

no problem.