Tag Archives: Arabic Language
Listening comprehension exercise in Arabic Posted by aziza on Oct 19, 2012
Listen to the news item below and answer the questions that follow: Use the following words to aid your understanding: مناورات = maneuvers عسكرية = military إزالة = removal الألغام = mines المتفجرات = explosives تقود = lead البحرية الأمريكية = US marines تهديد = threat ضمان = ensure حرية = freedom الملاحة = navigation…
Arabic Nouns of Place Posted by aziza on Oct 14, 2012
ظرف المكان is a special category of nouns in Arabic used in a sentence to denote place. It is a special type of noun in Arabic, but it can be understood as an adverbial of place, as it gives the place in which a certain action takes place. It is the word that answers the…
An Introduction مُقَدِّمَة Posted by jesa on Oct 13, 2012
“Record it, I am an Arab and my identity card number is 50,000”, (سَجِّل أنا عَربي ورَقِم بطاقَتي خَمسون أَلف) says the great Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish (محمود دَرويش) in his famous poem Record it, I am an Arab. And I say to you too: record this, I am an Arab. In my blog posts…
listening comprehension exercise Posted by aziza on Sep 28, 2012
Watch to the following video and use the information presented in it to answer the questions that follow: Useful vocabulary: دشّن = launched عاهل = king نموذج = model مطور = developed/advanced حجم = size أذواق = taste ضخمة = huge طول = length عرض = width معرض = exhibition Answer the following…
Some exercises on relative pronouns Posted by aziza on Sep 23, 2012
Do you remember the relative pronouns (الأسماء الموصولة) in Arabic? الذي = this (sing. masc.) التي = this (sing. fem.) اللذان = these (dual. masc. nom.) اللذين= these (dual. masc. acc./gen.) اللتان = these (dual. fem. nom.) اللتين = these (dual. fem. acc./gen.) الذين = these (plur. masc.) اللاتي = these (plur. fem.) Now, try…
Persian words in Egyptian Arabic Posted by aziza on Aug 25, 2012
In the previous post, I presented some words that are of Persian or Farsi origin that are currently used in Arabic. These words are treated like any other Arabic word, and most Arabs use them without even realizing that they are not originally Arabic. In this post, I present some more words that are…
Persian words used in Arabic Posted by aziza on Aug 24, 2012
In the previous post, I wrote that the Arabic language that we use today contains many words that are of foreign origins, especially in spoken dialects. In this post, I present some words that are of Persian or Farsi origin. بخت (bakht) = luck/fortune بيجامة (Bijama) = Pyjamas تنورة (tannoura) = skirt باذنجان (bathinjan) =…