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Fisal’s Dictionary: طبع Posted by Fisal on Nov 25, 2011
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 طبع and explore some of its derivatives. * طـَبـَعَ [V. T.] = to print or copy something . Ex. – طـَـبَـعَ محمدٌ الكتابَ =…
The Nominal Sentence: The Predicate (Al-Khabar) Posted by Fisal on Nov 24, 2011
The Predicate الخبر of the nominal sentence refers to the part that completes the meaning of the Subject. It tells us about the subject or gives us information about it. Now what are the types of the Predicate (Khabar) ? Types of the Khabar أنواع الخبر The Khabar can be any of the following…
The Nominal Sentence: The Subject (Al-Mubtada) Posted by Fisal on Nov 20, 2011
As we said before that the first item of the nominal sentence is the Subject or Al-Mubtada المبتدأ which is the noun that we talk about. This noun is always in the Nominative (Marfoo’) Case. Now what are the types of the Subject (Mubtada) ? Types of the Mubtada أنواع المبتدأ The…
The Arabic Sentence : The Nominal Sentence Posted by Fisal on Nov 20, 2011
We said before that there are two main types of Arabic sentences; the Nominal Sentence and the Verbal Sentence. Today we will focus on the first type. The Nominal Sentence الجملة الاسمية /Al-Jomlah Al-Ismiyyah/ is that which starts with a noun اسم /Ism/. This sentence consists of two important items to complete its meaning. These…
Hajj (pilgrimage) Posted by Fisal on Nov 5, 2011
Hajj الحج refers to the annual pilgrimage that Muslims make to the holy land of Makkah مكّة in Saudi Arabia, with the intention of performing certain religious rites exactly as Prophet Muhammad had done. It was made obligatory in the 9th year of Hijra. It is one of the largest pilgrimage in the world and…
Answer of word search Posted by aziza on Oct 31, 2011
In this post, I present the answer of the word search game presented in the previous post. بحر مياه شاطئ أسماك حوت قرش أخطبوط قاع دولفين أمواج Can you use any of these words in sentences of your own? You can share them in the comments section.
A word search game in Arabic Posted by aziza on Oct 30, 2011
In this post, I have created an Arabic word search game for you. Can you find the 10 words below in the table? If you are not sure about the meaning of any word, look at the bottom of the page for the translation. بحر مياه شاطئ أسماك حوت قرش أخطبوط قاع دولفين أمواج…