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Arabic Greetings Posted by on Mar 31, 2010 in Arabic Language

Here’s a list of Arabic greetings that you may find useful when traveling, or even doing your homework. If you have not already, you may want to take a look at my audio pronunciation guide for help with transliteration. Note that where appropriate, the characters within brackets indicate pronunciation in female form.

An audio supplement will accompany this entry soon.

Greetings and Mannerisms
Good morning صباح الخير saba7 al-khair
Good afternoon (also good evening) مساء الخير massa2 al-khair
Good night ليلة سعيدة or تصبح على خير tosba7(i) 3ala khair (informal) or layla sa3eeda
Goodbye إلى اللقاء or مع السلامة ma3 l’salama or ila l’liqa2
Welcome or Hello مرحبا or أهلا ahlan or mar7aba
How are you? كيف حالك kaifa 7aluka(i)
I am fine, thanks أنا بخير ، شكرا ana bekhair, shukran
I’m very well, thanks أنا جيد جدا ، شكرا ana jayyed jidan, shukran
Thank you شكرا لك shukran laka(i)
You are welcome تكرم عينك (Colloquial Levantine) tekram 3aynak (3aynik)
Congratulations مبروك mabruk
Good luck بالنجاح bel-naja7
Pleasure meeting you تشرفنا (informal) tsharafna
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Comments:

  1. Laiba:

    Jazak Allah

  2. Mohamad:

    You’re welcome!

  3. yussef961:

    sorry but stupid page cause you need to differentiathe the arabics …
    stick to one dialect and don’t mix with fossha or other dialects…
    btw fossha is seen as very strange when used in everyday’s life so if you want to go to one arab country learn sentences from this country (or aera in which you go cause in some countries like algeria you have different dialedcts)