Arabic term
وسقتني قهرا حتى الثمالة
The context here is a young girl remembering a man who she suspects killed her father. I'm not sure what this phrase means here.
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وضع كفه على كتف أبي يواسيه ، تلك الكف نفسها سفكت دمه، وسقتني قهرا حتى الثمالة ، هل أخطأ والدي عندما وثق به؟
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Apr 22, 2022 17:53: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"
Proposed translations
Morocco
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Native in: Arabic (Variant: Standard-Arabian (MSA)) 
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Works in: French to Arabic, English to Arabic, Arabic to French, and 6 more.
Have me hell until I could bear/stand no more
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/give-so...
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Gave not have.
Sorry for the typo!
Morocco
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Works in: English to Arabic, French to Arabic, Arabic to English, and 21 more.
and extremely abused me
It's extremely hard to come up with a faithful translation because Arabic is very vivid in describing scenes.
It's a personalisation (I guess) because a man abused her, and she placed emphasise on his hands. It's obvious he used to abuse her harshly, and his physical abuse was terrible
She used to feel (as if she were drunk) when he abused her.
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France
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Native in: Arabic (Variant: Standard-Arabian (MSA)) , French (Variant: Standard-France)
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It made me drink the oppression to become silly
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https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/drink-yourself-silly-...
United Kingdom
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Native in: Arabic , English
Works in: English to Arabic, French to Arabic, Spanish to Arabic, and 3 more.
and drove me to drinking until oblivion/ stupor
hence my translation.
As for ثمالة, I didn't want to say 'drunkenness' because it would be too repetitive with the verb 'drink'
Also possible: and forced me to drink until oblivion/ stupor
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Note added at 1 hr (2022-04-22 19:19:43 GMT)
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Note: i meant ‘gave me to drink’ in a metaphoric way, meaning that the hand that likely killed her father is the hand which (metaphorically) gave her to drink, i.e. pushed her into the habit of drinking
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