Vocabulary
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Topic: Vocabulary
Posted By: ummziba
Subject: Vocabulary
Date Posted: 14 October 2006 at 8:32am
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Assalamu alaikum, Let's use this thread for posting words and their meanings. Please feel free to add your input! Peace, ummziba. ------------- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they break my soul ~ |
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Posted By: herjihad
Date Posted: 14 October 2006 at 2:08pm
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Salaams, Marhaba is hello. Ma Salama is goodbye. Ya Illahee -- My God, but not in the careless way the translation indicates, but a loving, cherishing way. See y'all later! ------------- Al-Hamdulillah (From a Married Muslimah) La Howla Wa La Quwata Illa BiLLah - There is no Effort or Power except with Allah's Will. |
Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 6:55pm
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Sidi/Khulti - (my)Mister/(my)Sister. For informal use referring to others
and will be used for sentence construction below. Yulla - let's go, right on, let's get a move on, alright!, etc..."Yulla Sidi" "Let's go, Mister!" Haqq - (the q represented the deep throat k) truth, fact, and The Truth (of God) "qool il haqq, khulti" would then be "Tell the truth, sister" Safi - clear. One's heart (Qlb) could be 'safi' or clear. Also used to say "Got it! I Understand! Safi!" La - no. Basic and helpful to both say 'no' and commonly used to make anything negative. Shoof - look, look! see! an attention getter the way we use "Hey! Over here!" example "Yulla Sidi, nshoof" - "Let's go Mister, and see" Baraka - blessing, boon, including tips of money or even food. Holy items are said to be charged with baraka. Also, used to mean "Enough!" if you feel full of food or feel like you have enough of something. Attay - to give, direct one to. Used with endings "ni"(me) "na"(us) "hoom"(them) Therefore, "attay-ni" will be, "Give me..", etc. Example would be "Attay-ni baraka" THalla farasikoom, Jamal Morelli p.s I have started a small (extremely playful and informal) introduction to Moroccan Arabic (link below in signature); most of the common words are shared but there are some that will be odd to the MSA student. If you have iTunes, you can find the Moroccan Arabic lessons (for free) if you just search under "Jamal Morelli"... Hope that it helps a bit. I'll continue to post here as well... |
Posted By: Servetus
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 8:46am
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�Hayk wullah mahayk?� �Are you lying or telling the truth?� (Putting it less strongly, or accusingly, �is that truth or fiction?�) I am not referring in this case to the contents of any of the above posts Serv |
and if my understanding of this phrase is wrong, all fault lies with one of my mischievous Arab friends who once introduced me to conversational Arabic (and smoking nargila, or sheesha, but not hashish). Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 05 November 2006 at 9:24pm
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Date Posted: 05 November 2006 at 9:26pm
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Date Posted: 07 November 2006 at 5:09am
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Date Posted: 10 November 2006 at 12:09am
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Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 11:52am
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Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 27 November 2006 at 6:50am
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RHYME TO REMEMBER...
nas - people ras - head bas - harm (moroccan as in 'la bas?' - 'no harm?') fas - axe khas - need (moroccan) cas - cup |
Posted By: herjihad
Date Posted: 27 November 2006 at 5:44pm
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Salaams and Bismillah, This is Morrocan? So for the Arabic I know, bas means enough and khas is lettuce. ------------- Al-Hamdulillah (From a Married Muslimah) La Howla Wa La Quwata Illa BiLLah - There is no Effort or Power except with Allah's Will. |
Jamal Morelli wrote:
Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 29 November 2006 at 9:49am
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Peace Herjihad,
Good call - you got to catch me on the daraja sometimes. Edited previous post with notes on the colloquial.... Shukran and Blessings, Jamal |
Posted By: rayeesul
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 3:21am
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Assalam alaikum
bayt = house baytun = a house al baytu = the house fil bayti = in the house alal bayti = on the house ------------- R.Rayeesul Muqthar |
Posted By: herjihad
Date Posted: 30 November 2006 at 5:02pm
min al bayt -- from the house illal bayt -- to the house juwa albayt -- in the house (also) Rowahit -- I went home. Rowihna -- We went home. (There's no bayt in there, but that is what it means. ------------- Al-Hamdulillah (From a Married Muslimah) La Howla Wa La Quwata Illa BiLLah - There is no Effort or Power except with Allah's Will. |
Posted By: mariyah
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 9:01pm
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Shukr..Thankful..gratitude Shukran...thank you Shukran jazilaan...thank you very much! Wahid....one .....lets count ------------- "Every good deed is charity whether you come to your brother's assistance or just greet him with a smile. |
Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 03 December 2006 at 6:03pm
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ithneen - two
talatha - three ...keep counting... (sidenote - the 'th' is dropped from moroccan arabic speaking so these would be pronounced 'itneen' and 'talata'...an interesting similarity to the dropping of the 'th' sound from classical spanish speakers when speaking 's' with a mexican dialect) |
Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 08 December 2006 at 8:26am
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Date Posted: 10 December 2006 at 6:39pm
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Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 11:07pm
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For my hundredth post -
Miyya - hundred miyyateen - two hundred talath miyya - three hundred and so on... |
Posted By: shamsmuscat
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 2:20am
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hi, this is my first post in the IslamicCity forum ........ I am an Arab and I see that most words are in the colliqual Arabic from different parts of the Arab world. So, I am posting here some of the words are used in most Arab countries Iftah------:(an order) - fataha---- (past) -- yaftah ---(present). means to open. e.g: Iftah el-baab = open the door in the same tense: Iktup----- kataba-----yaktup means to write Ahmed kataba el-wajib= Ahmed wrote the homework Ibki---- baka--- yabki means to weep Sami yabki = Sami cries naam----naama---- yanam means to sleep naam ya Salim = hey Salim sleep Idrib----- daraba---- yadrib means to hit daraba Khalid el-kurah= Khalid hit the ball dakir----dakara-----yudakir means to study Shadi yudakir kul lailah = Shadi studies every night
you can ask me about any word in Arabic that comes in your heads
thanks for this terrific website |
Posted By: shamsmuscat
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 2:26am
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colors in Arabic black---aswad white----abiad or you may say abiaz yellow--- asfar blue---azraq green--- akhdar or you may say akhzar brown---- bunni
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Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 9:05am
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Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 04 January 2007 at 7:24pm
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And tacking onto Shamsmuscat's post a bit
Meftooh - Light, as in Light Blue, Light Colors, etc. (see the poetic connection of FTH?) Maghaloq - Dark, as in Dark Colors Azraq - blue Azraq Meftooh - Light Blue Hamra - red Hamra maghaloq - Dark Red |
Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 12 January 2007 at 5:26pm
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Emotions -
Ferhan - happy Hazeen - sad Mqalq (moroccan) - nervous, upset sa3ida - joyful, happy |
Posted By: SimplyMoroccan
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 3:20pm
Sal�m. I see that you mixed up both dialectal and standard Arabic there,(sad is Haz�n by the way, not heezan), as mqllq is definitely a Moroccan word. By the way, why aren't the links in your signature working? |
Posted By: SimplyMoroccan
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 3:22pm
Well actually, you can not say akhzar and abiaz, those words can't be but akhdar and abyad, and that's the correct way of prunouncing them. -This thread is about standard Arabic, right?- |
Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 22 January 2007 at 8:34am
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Peace,
Simply Moroccan - giving native arabic speaker shamsmuscat the benefit of the doubt (which is wisest when you are on unfamiliar territory) that letter 'z' which appears in both words, which he puts in twice logically in the same place, on some arabic keyboards (like a arabic layout on my Mac) is found on the letter Z - and is [zai]. Font Restrictions on this site make a flowing arabic exchange pretty tough. [[UPDATE: Man, there are lots of different layouts. But still, the abjadi order left little doubt on the letter. shamsmuscat, you may want to use the z with the diacritical mark on the bottom for the *za'* letter since the plain z does look like *zai* or (as I have seen) a capital Z.]] Standard Arabic? Yes. When I am not slipping in daraja. And thanks for the heads up on my links - didn't know they were down! Jamal Morelli |
Posted By: SimplyMoroccan
Date Posted: 22 January 2007 at 10:35am
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True indeed, I do not type with an Arabic keyboard. Now I could check your link :). |
Posted By: hat2010
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 7:14pm
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Salam alikoom wa rahmatulahi wa barakatuhu,
A first attempt at cleaning up a bit - Here is some common vocabulary come across in the Quran but in everyday standard Arabic as well... Malik - angel or king yoom - day deen - religion abid - slave, servant (in Morocco, it means both servant of God and someone who is Sudani in origin) abid (verb) - to serve Moo-sta-qeem - straight and commonly understood throughout the Arabic speaking world to mean straight in the way we use 'straight shooter'; implies the right, clear, direct path. hetta - until qabr - grave kala! - (used in the Quran) Indeed! Oh! Surely! rab - a god/lord ...rabaat - a goddess as in rabaat lHub "goddess of love" however, popular use restricts rab as rab-ee which is "my god/lord" falaq - a word translated as dawn, daybreak, and universe khalaq - to create (usually reserved for Allah's creation) min - from Peace... Some Vocabulary from Sura Al Qadr Bismillah - Leyl - night Qadr - power, destiny, ability to do (as in the verb qdr, to be able, can, etc) alf - thousand (alfeen, two thousand - talatha alf, three thousand, etc) SHahr - month ruH- soul hetta - until tala3 - to rise fajr - dawn Peace... Some Vocabulary from FATIHA Eeyaka - to you alone For English speakers the final line in the opening prayer is the toughest - it has the 'gh' sound which is best compared to the french 'r' sound. (That, and the way most learn it causes them to blur all the words together.) SuraTa - the path Al aDeena - of those whom (not to be confused with 'deen' - religion) n3amta (aliheem) - favors (upon them) Al MagheTHoobi (aliheem) - those who got wrath (upon them) ghayr - not that of, just not that of. In common usage in Morocco, ghayr is used as 'just' or "but for the exception of"; "Koolhom ghayr ana" - "Everyone of them but me".... the word also sounds like the word for 'jealousy!' Al THaleen - those who went astray La - no. Sometimes the appearance of the word (lem) will also serve to negate the following word; meaning 'not' or 'not of' That wasn't too confusing... Some Vocabulary from Sura Nasr Bismillah nasr - victory fatih - opening, triumph dkhul - enter stfghr (Allah) - forgiveness (of/from God) You will find definitions for other words that appear in these smaller suras like "Hamd", "Deen", "Nas" etc in previous posts. Peace... Jamal Morelli |
Posted By: shamsmuscat
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 5:12am
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As-salam Alikum, all ............ I am a specialist in English though my mother tongue is Arabic; when I used the "z" in the pronounciation was simply because I noticed how many non-native Arabic speakers find it easier to pronounce the "Dh" a "z", not only the dark "dh" but even the light "dh" e.g. dhaakara: ���� he studied, and they pronounce it zaakara. and fortunately if a non-native Arabic speake pronounce it like that we (natives) can understand him/her. the dark "dh" : � is existed in the Arabic language only , and it is the hardest letter in it to pronounce. e.g. dharaba al-walad. ��� �����: he hit the boy. So am not saying "dh" is the same as "z", but you are excused if you pronounced it "z" since it is considered hard even to some of native Arabic speakers in specific Arab countries. ________________________ standard Arabic is good to learn the Holy Quran and reading the original Arabic books, but for speaking Arabic it would be better to learn the dialects. |