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Body Parts in Arabic: The Body

The Body Parts in Arabic: The Body

In schools, colleges or in medical schools, we all have learned about the human body (Jismu al-insan – جسم الإنسان) and the various human body parts (A’da’u jismi al-insan – أعضاء جسم الإنسان), and since most people start out to learn Arabic by memorizing as much vocabulary as possible, we decided that in this post we are going to learn the Arabic vocabulary of some basic parts of the human body. From head to toe, these Arabic names of the human body parts will be frequently used in your daily conversations and we suggest that you practice them a lot as they will come very handy when time is right.

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لماذا تدرّس روسيا اللغة العربية؟

Why Arabic is being taught in Russia?
هل ستحافظ اللغة العربية في القرن الحادي والعشرين على مواقعها في المجالات العملية والثقافية في ظل ظروف العولمة ، بالرغم من بعض التوقعات المقلقة لمنظمة اليونيسكو ؟ ولماذا يتنامى في روسيا الاهتمام بدراسة اللغة العربية ؟ وكيف هو الحال بالنسبة للمدرسة الروسية ذات التقاليد العريقة في تعليم اللغة العربية واعداد المستعربين؟ واين سيطبق معارفهم اولئك المستعربون الذين تخرجوا من المعاهد العالية الروسية المتخصصة؟ هذه الاسئلة وغيرها تقع في مركز اهتمام ضيوف برنامج “بانوراما”.

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Arabic Vocabulary: Colors in Arabic

Color (in Arabic : لون): is what you see when you modify the pigments so that light physically seen by the human eye (called the response) and translated in the brain (called the process) .The human eye has three color receptors, respectively sensitive to red, green and blue. A color can be defined by three components. We can use the rate of red, green and blue, which corresponds to the system Red Green Blue (RGB). It is used for example in computer science but remains far from our natural perception of colors.

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Arabic Grammar: Adjectives in Arabic

An adjective in Arabic is called Na’t نعت or Sifah صفة Singular of sifaat صفات and it’s typically a word that describes a noun (Object, person, place…) called man’oot منعوت or “mawssoof” موصوف. Unlike in English, the Arabic adjectives come after the noun they qualify and should agree with it in gender, number, and sometimes even in definiteness.

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Hellos and Greetings in Arabic

Hellos and Greetings in Arabic

In this lesson we will discuss the necessary phrases for greeting one another. The normal Hello/Hi in Arabic Greetings has two forms. The first one is “As-salaamu alaykum” السلام عليكم which is made of two words and means “Pease be upon you”. The response is switching words and adding a small “wa” at the beginning which means “and”, the result is “Wa alaykom salam” وعليكم السلام. The other form of saying Hello/Hi in Arabic is “Marḥaban” مرحبا…

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