Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
English: First sheet in a series of arabic vocabulary. Emphasis put on the words' form to familiarise the student with meaning, prononciation and recognition. The words are not all baby words like carrot or cat or ice-cream because we are not learning MSA to go on a beach holiday.
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, elevated prose and oratory, and is also the liturgical language of Islam.
Vocabulary Notes Kitab al-'Ayn [n 1] (Arabic: كتاب العين) Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (Arabic: الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي) (b. 718 - d. 791) 8th century Kitab al-Ayn was the first dictionary for the Arabic language. [1] Kitab al-Jim [n 2] (Arabic: كتاب الجيم) a.k.a. Kitab al-Lughat or Kitab al-Huruf: Abu ...
Pages in category "Arabic words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 331 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Classical Arabic is considered normative; a few contemporary authors attempt (with varying degrees of success) to follow the syntactic and grammatical norms laid down by classical grammarians (such as Sibawayh) and to use the vocabulary defined in classical dictionaries (such as the Lisan al-Arab, Arabic: لِسَان الْعَرَب).
The letter ayn (ع) of the dictionary's title is regarded as phonetically the deepest letter in the Arabic alphabet. In addition the word ayn carries the sense of 'a water source in the desert'. Its title "the source" alludes also to the author's interest in etymology and tracing the meanings of words to their Arabic origins.
Many Western words entered Arabic through Ottoman Turkish as Turkish was the main language for transmitting Western ideas into the Arab world. There are about 3,000 Turkish borrowings in Syrian Arabic, mostly in administration and government, army and war, crafts and tools, house and household, dress, and food and dishes.
"Peripheral" varieties of Arabic – that is, varieties spoken in countries where Arabic is not a dominant language and a lingua franca (e.g., Turkey, Iran, Cyprus, Chad, Nigeria and Eritrea)– are particularly divergent in some respects, especially in their vocabularies, since they are less influenced by classical Arabic. However ...