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Abd (Arabic) Abu Turab; Adl; After Saturday comes Sunday; Ahl al-Bayt; Ajam; Al-Farooq (title) Al-Insān al-Kāmil; Al-Quds (disambiguation) Al-Wakil; Alcalde; Alhamdulillah; Alids; Aljama; Allahu akbar; Allahumma; Allamah; Amanah (administrative division) Arabic compound; Arabic definite article; Arabic diacritics; Arabic language influence on ...
Since Arabic lacks a verb meaning "to have", constructions using li-, ‘inda, and ma‘a with the pronominal suffixes are used to describe possession. For example: عنده بيت (ʿindahu bayt) – literally: At him (is) a house. → He has a house. For the negation of Arabic verbs, see Negation in Arabic.
When speaking or reading aloud, nouns at the end of an utterance are pronounced in a special pausal form (اَلْوَقْفُ al-waqf). Final short vowels, as well as short vowels followed by a nunation, are omitted; but accusative -an sounds as -ā. The -t-in the feminine ending -at-sounds as -h-.
Arabic phrases are used in a variety of other rituals and religious acts, such as during the performance of Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. Pilgrims recite prayers and phrases in Arabic, including the Talbiyah: "Labbayka Allahumma Labbayk" (Here I am, O Allah, here I am). [16]
Flag of the Arab League, used in some cases for the Arabic language. The issue of whether Arabic is one language or many languages is politically charged, in the same way it is for the varieties of Chinese, Hindi and Urdu, Serbian and Croatian, Scots and English, etc. In contrast to speakers of Hindi and Urdu who claim they cannot understand ...
There are three tenses in Arabic: the past tense (اَلْمَاضِي al-māḍī), the present tense (اَلْمُضَارِع al-muḍāriʿ) and the future tense.The future tense in Classical Arabic is formed by adding either the prefix سَـ sa-or the separate word سَوْفَ sawfa onto the beginning of the present tense verb, e.g. سَيَكْتُبُ sa-yaktubu or ...
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.
Compound formation in Arabic represents a linguistic occurrence whereby two or more lexemes merge to create a singular word conveying a particular significance. This process of compounding is a fundamental aspect of Arabic morphology and plays a crucial role in lexical expansion and semantic enrichment.