Archive for 'Vocabulary'
Kana and Sisters; Verb Types Posted by Fisal on Feb 17, 2012
The verb Kana كان and its sisters are special verbs in the Arabic language. They start the Nominal sentence and case the subject to be their noun (Ism اســـْـــم) with a dammah and cause the predicate to be their Predicate (Khabar خـــَــبـــَــر) with a Fat’ha on its end. Now the question is what are…
Birth of a Prophet (571 – 632) Posted by Fisal on Feb 4, 2012
Birth of a Prophet (571 – 632) مــِــيـــلادُ نــَــبـــِــىّ Today in the Islamic Calendar is the 12th of رَبـــِـــيــــعُ الأوَّل Rabi’ Al-Aw’wal 1433 A.H. (After Hijra) which is the birthday of prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him). The day was a Monday and the Islamic Calendar depends on the moon cycle unlike the Gregorian Calendar…
O, my Birthday; You have come back ! Posted by Fisal on Feb 3, 2012
Most of us have had some sad experience in this life as sadness is a universal feeling. Lots of poets have expressed that feeling and many singers have sung these poems. Today, I am going to present a sad song from the Egyptian movie “A Day without Tomorrow يـَــومٌ بــِـــلا غــَـــدٍ “. The movie…
Word search game, breakfast, answer Posted by aziza on Jan 30, 2012
In this post, I present the answer of the Arabic word search game about breakfast (الفطور) and the translation of the search words 1- breakfast 2- bread 3- honey 4- cheese 5- milk 6- tea 7- coffee 8- biscuit 9- yoghurt 10- sandwich
Word search game, breakfast Posted by aziza on Jan 29, 2012
A word search game in Arabic In this post, I present an Arabic word search game. Can you find the 10 words below in the table? All the words relate to the theme of breakfast (الفطور). If you are not sure about the meaning of any word, come back again tomorrow for the translation and…
Fisal’s Dictionary: “to read” Posted by Fisal on Jan 28, 2012
Today, we are going to go on a journey to the depths of the Arabic Dictionary to discover some of its secrets. We will look up the root verb قرأ and explore some of its derivatives. * قــَـرأ [V. T.] = to read. Ex. – قــَـرأ محمدٌ الخطابَ = Mohammad read the letter. …
Ibn Fadlān: Meet a World-Class International Arab Man of Mystery Posted by Hichem on Jan 27, 2012
Way before the world had the pleasure of being introduced to Google Earth, the iPhone, Wikipedia, the GPS, and other technological niceties, people’s best shot at learning about far away nations was through the dispatch of intrepid explorers, who would then pave the way to diplomatic special envoys, ultimately followed by full-fledged ambassadors. Today, you’ll be…