Learn the basics of arabic from here Insha Allaah (God willing.)
Okay, from this thread you'll learn some basic arabic which will help you understand the Qur'an abit more so when you read it, you can get a basic understanding of what is being recited inshaa Allaah (God willing.)
If i ever make any mistakes, or ever need any help - sister amirah_87 or Mawaddah, or any brother or sister who knows arabic can save us insha Allaah.
I only know the basics, and alhamdulillah since i've remembered some of these short techniques, i've been able to understand alot of what has been said, or atleast i've been able to get a basic understanding of what i recite. Inshaa Allaah it will be of benefit to you too.
I'm guessing you already know the basic arabic letters and their sounds inshaa Allaah, if not - the following picture will be a basic guideline. But i won't be going into depth regarding that since the aim of this is to learn just the basic aspects of the arabic language and a little grammar.
Re: Baby Arabic Lessons - Learn from here Insha Allaah.
Connectives
The first thing we'll be looking at are connectives, i'll list a few and you have to try to memorise them. They're really simple to learn, and once you get hold of them you'll be able to understand or visualise what the next thing is in the passage.
Al = The
Fee = In / On the.
Wa = And
Fa = So
Maa = What
Man = Who
Min = from
Hat-aa = Until
Z/Dhaalik = that
New ones Added:
Inn = Surely/Verily
il-laa = except
Examples:
Al = The.
(Al) Madina (The City)
Fee = In / On the.
(Fee) In the earth / On the earth.
Wa = And.
(Wa) and he was happy.
Fa = So.
(Fa) so he started to smile.
Try to memorise those, if you can you will find that they are mentioned alot in the Qur'an. You'll gradually realise that words are mentioned many times in Qur'an repeatedly, and Allaah makes it easy for us alhamdulillah (the praise is for Allaah.)
If i've missed any, please do add and inshaa Allaah (Allaah willing) we'll be talking about prefixes and suffixes next lesson.
Last edited by - Qatada -; 06-29-2007 at 04:24 PM.
Reason: new words added
Re: Baby Arabic Lessons - Learn from here Insha Allaah.
Prefixes and Suffixes
Prefixes
Prefixes are usually placed at the beginning of a word, usually to make it understandable that the thing being discussed is a human.
The main one in the arabic language is MU (the meem with a dhamma/peysh.) It can be placed infront of any word nearly; i.e. Muslim, Muhsin, Mu'min etc.
It's usually placed before an action or to personify it. (Someone please correct me if i'm wrong?)
I.e.
Muslim (someone who submits)
Mushrik (someone who commits shirk/association of partners)
Muhsin (someone who does good)
Suffixes
Suffixes are at the end of a word, in the arabic language they are mainly; OON and EEN.
The OON usually refers to the past tense.
The EEN usually refers to the present or future.
It's required to make something plural.
So for example, if there are alot of ---. In the arabic language it would be;
Muslimoon/Muslimeen
Muhsinoon/Muhsineen
Mushrikoon/Mushrikeen
Try to make the following words into plurals inshaa Allaah:
Re: Baby Arabic Lessons - Learn from here Insha Allaah.
Learn them two and insha Allaah we'll be advancing on.. if you can't understand that part, you will with the upcoming parts insha Allaah. and if u have any questions - please do ask.
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Mashallah... Thank you to everybody i really needed something like this. I always wanted to learn arabic to be able to understand Quran, but no one would teach me. Thank you. now this will teach me to understand Quran.
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wow..brilliant idea..and very easy
1. Muzna - Pakistani or Arab term used for someone that excels or over-achieves. Usually used as a congratulatory or praising remark.
Actual Muznas are a rare find. Many fakes are in circulation as parents attempt to influence their female offspring's personality and destiny by naming them Muzna.
Re: Baby Arabic Lessons - Learn from here Insha Allaah.
Numbers
We will learn upto 10 in this part of the session insha Allaah:
1 = Waahid
2 = Ith Nain/aan (the Th sounds like when you say thousand)
3 = Thalatha
4 = Arba'a
5 = Khamsa (the Kh sound comes from the throat)
6 = Sita
7 = Saba'a
8 = Thamaniya
9 = Tis'a
10 = 'AshAra
You may be wondering why i'm teaching numbers, but numbers are even mentioned within Qur'an. I.e. the number of angels, how long the Day of Judgement will be etc.
Suffixes Continued...
Now that you've seen some of the numbers mentioned above, we will explain how to make the numbers into their (10 x multiplied counterparts) - ty's(i.e. thirty, forty etc.)
The basic rule is as mentioned in the previous lesson, the OON and the EEN's.
So;
2 = Ith Nain
20 = 'Ish rOON (this is the only exception to the rule, that it doesn't mention the 2/two.)
Re: Baby Arabic Lessons - Learn from here Insha Allaah.
I've edited some mistakes i made on the numbers, alhamdulillah i was corrected.
And some people said that the connectives aren't really 'connectives' - i agree.. i just wanted to fit all the words which will help you link or 'understand' what the sentence is saying. So i will place them all under that 'Connectives' category inshaa Allaah.
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Jazaak Allaah khayr sister sheeba, you got 2 and a half, or maybe 3 out of 4/5 answers right alhamdulillah. And yes you are right, we all are learning alhamdulillah, and we even learn through mistakes.
The red ones are your answers, and the blue is what i say insha Allaah.
1) What is 50,000 (fifty thousand) in the arabic language?
Khamsamillioon
Khamseena Alf
[Khamseen = 50
Alf = 1000
= 50,000]
2) What is arba'a + khamsa?
4 + 5 = Tis'a
Yes Alhamdulillah correct!
3) What is Siteen + Thamanoon?
60, 8o
Yes alhamdulillah correct.
4) What is Imaam Al-Nawawi's famous collection of hadith called?
Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith
This is also correct alhamdulillah, it's famously known in arabic as the "Arba'oon" (40) - because it has 40 Ahadith in.
5) What is 1400 in the arabic language?
Arbaalf
Arba = 4
Alf = 1000
= 4000
I think i never explained the question properly, and i never explained what 14 in the arabic language was either. So this is my fault, sorry.
It's said as:
1400: Alf wa Arba' Mi'ah.
1 thousand and four hundred.
Last edited by - Qatada -; 05-28-2007 at 02:27 PM.
Re: Baby Arabic Lessons - Learn from here Insha Allaah.
I'm going to keep quiet about numbers. The Moroccan words are quite different for Moroccan Arabic and I can not seem to shake them. I'm stuck counting in Moroccan. Although the written digits are the same as in standard Arabic.
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So out of 5 i answered 3 right, and the first and the last question i didn't get properly, so I tried my best atleast. I will correct myself, insha'allah.
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