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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Monday, October 11, 2010

Arabic flash cards

Arabic Vocabulary flashcards from jshelt12 on FlashcardDB.

Friday, March 12, 2010

More Arabic Study Notes

Flash cards with clear pronunciation: Arabic Root words (to Study) in Arabic / Byki Arabic list

A very well explained egyptian_proverbs.txt

not so well explained Lebanese Proverbs

Words common to English The Arabic language

Arabic influence on the Spanish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Using Roots Brief List of Arabic Word Roots

There are simple and predictable rules for present (imperfect) and imperative forms of the basic root, such as:

yaktubu he writes
yaktabunâ they write
taktubu you write
naktubu we write
'uktub write!

Arabic ROOT word list of interest:

a-kh-r

to postpone, defer, be last, final, ultimate
(al-âkhir, âkhar, ukhrâ, ta'khîr, mu'akhkhara)

'a-l-m

743

to know, have knowledge, be informed, teach, notify
(al-'alîm, 'ilm, 'ilmiya, 'allam, u'lûma)

a-n-s

to be familiar, friendly, sociable
(uns, insî, ins, anîs)

'a-r-f

708

to know, to perceive, discover, to announce
('arîf, 'irfân, ma'rîfa, ta'rîf, ma'rûf)

dh-k-r

358

to remember, recollect, bear in mind
(dhikr, tadhkâr, dhâkira)

d-w-n

350

to record, write down, enter, collect
(dîwân)

f-n-y

854

to wane, dwindle, recede, come to an end, cease to exist
(fanâ', fânin)

f-q-h

847

to understand, comprehend or to teach, instruct
(fiqh)

f-t-m

to wean, relinquish, disengage, abstain, cut-off
(Fâtima)

h-â-l

251

to change, be transformed, become, to be transferred
(hâla, tahwîl, ihâla)

h-q-q

224

to be true, right, correct
(al-haqq, haqîq, tahqîq)

h-s-n

208

to be beautiful, lovely. fine, proper
(husnâ, hasan)

h-y-y

256

to live, to exist
(al-hayy, tahîya, ihyâ', hayâh, hayya)

k-f-â

977

to be enough, sufficient, to meet all needs
(kifâya, iktifâ', mukâfâh)

k-l-m

981

to speak, talk, converse, express
(kalima, kalâm)

k-m-l

984

to be whole, complete, perfect, finished
(kamâl, kâmil, kamâla, takmîl, ikmâ, istikmâll)

k-s-b

966

to earn, acquire, win, gather, attain
(kâsib, iktisâb)

n-s-r

1138

to help, aid, assist, defend, protect
(nasîr, mansûr)

n-s-y

1130

to forget, neglect, omit
(nasy, mansîy)

s-m-'

501

to hear, to listen, pay attention, be told, hear about
(al-samî', samâ')

sh-k-r

563

to thank, to be grateful, laud, offer thanks
(al-shakûr)

w-s-w-s

1254

to whisper, to temp, to awaken doubts
(waswâs)

z-h-r

682

to be visible, perceptible, manifest, distinct
(al-zâhir)

Well written: Word formation and the use of Arabic dictionaries | Arabic Blog

More roots: derivation from Arabic root - WordReference Forums

The construction مَفْعَل (maf3al) usually means "place where one does (something related to the root)," so we have for example:

مَطْعَم - from the root ط ع م (food, to feed) - "place where one feeds/is fed

restaurant
مَتْحَف - from the root ت ح ف (artifacts) - "place where one keeps artifacts"

museum
مَطَار - from the root ط ا ر (to fly) - "place where one flies"

airport
مَتْجَر - from the root ت ج ر (trade, commerce) - "place where one trades"

shop, commercial establishment
مَصْنَع - from the root ص ن ع (to make, to manufacture) - "place where one manufactures"

factory
مَسْبَح - from the root س ب ح (to swim) - "place where one swims"

swimming pool

Writing Drills:

Writing Arabic: a linguistic ... - Google Books

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Animated Arabic

Finally a site to help draw your letters; even the isolated, initial, median and final of every letter! Also sounding out words and simple sentences. Thanks Khadija.