Category of vocabulary: Animals/ ُالْحَيَوَانَات – Al Haywaanaat
New word: Horse/ الحِصانُ – Al-Hisaan
Week 1 Category of vocabulary: Animals/ ُالْحَيَوَانَات – Al Haywaanaat
New word: Horse/ الحِصانُ – Al-Hisaan
A sentence example:
!يَا أَبِيْ، انْظُرْ إِلَى الحِصانِ هُنَاكَ
O my father, look at the horse over there!
Summarised Concept: Level: Beginner.
أَنْوَاعُ الْكَلِمَاتِ فِي اللُّغَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ
Types of Words in the Arabic Language (part 1)
There are three types of words that exist within the Arabic language:
1. The Noun –
2. ُالاسْم (al ism)
2. The Verb – ُالفِعْل (al fi’il)
3. The Particle – ُالْحَرْف (al harf)
In this week’s newsletter we shall focus on the noun and how to recognise it within the Arabic language.
What is a noun?
كَلِمَةٌ دَلَّتْ عَلَى مَعْنًى فِي نَفْسِهَا وَلَمْ تَقْتَرِنْ بِزَمَنٍ
It’s a word which has a meaning within itself and it remains the same regardless of the tense it’s used in.
Example of a noun: ُالْمَسْجِد – Al-masjid
An example of it being used in the past tense:
ذَهَبَ زَيْدٌ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ.
Zayd went to the masjid.
Example of a noun being used in the present tense:
يَذْهَبُ زَيْدٌ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ.
Zayd is going to the masjid.
Example of a noun being used in the future tense:
سَيَذْهَبُ زَيْدٌ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ غَدًا إنْ شَاءَ اللهُ تَعَالَى.
Zayd will go to the masjid tomorrow, if Allah wills.
How can we recognise a noun in the Arabic language?
The noun in the Arabic language has a variety of different signs to recognise it, the easiest way to recognise nouns are through identifying one of these signs:
1. Tanween (ً ٍ ٌ ) – it’s a double fathah, or a double kasrah or a double dhammadh that can exist on the end of nouns.
Example: مُحَمَّدٌ/مُحَمَّدٍ/مُحَمَّدًا
2. The term (ْال) going in front of the noun. When this happens the tanween becomes a single vowel (َ ِ ُ )
Example:
بَيْتٌ —> البَيْتُ/بَيْتًا —> البَيْتَ/بَيْتٍ —> البَيْتِ