Handout 5

• What does haroof mean?

  Letters
• what does kalima mean?

  Word
• What does Murakkab mean?


  Compound
• What does Kalaam mean?

  Sentence
• The combonation of huroof gives us what?

  kalimah (words)
• What do we combine to get kalimah?

  huroof (letters)
• Kalimahs can be?


  Noun, Verb, particle
• pronouns, adjectives, and interjections all fall into what category?

  Asim (اسم)
• To use nouns in a sentence we need to know how many things about it?

  4
• What 4 things do you need to know about the noun?

  1. Number/count
  2. Gender
  3. Definite or indefinite
  4. Status
• In Arabic everything is either masculine or feminine even the non-living things. There is no concept of it, everything is just he or she. We need to know the meaning of a word to know if it is masculine or feminine. If it is living we can easily say if it is male or female.
• If it is not living then look at the ending if it ends with a tamer bootha then 99.9% of the time it will be.

  feminine
• the rest of the 0.1% is because of this list

  1. Names of Fire
  2. Names of Winds
  3. Names of alcohol
  4. Names of cities and countries
  5. paired body organs
  6. these 6 words
• What are the 6 words?

  1. sky (samma)
  2. sun (shams )
  3. inner self (nafs)
  4. war (harb)
  5. Horse (daar)
  6. Earth (ardh)
• Definite noun in Arabic is called

  اسم معر فة(asim marafa)
• All proper nouns, demonstrative pronouns, conjunctive pronouns and nouns with Al (ال) are definite.
• Indefinite noun in Arabic is called

  اسم نكر ة(Asim Nakira)
• all nouns other than proper nouns, demonstrative pronouns, conjunctive pronouns and nouns with Al (ال) are indefinite.
• examples of indefinite nouns?

  kitaab, qalam, babun
• Definite noun examples?

  al kitaabu
• How do you change an indefinite noun to a definite

  Add Al (ال) to the indefinite noun and change it into an (oo) sound
• what does Adding Al (ال) to the indefinite noun and changing it into an (oo) sound do to the indefinite noun?

  Changes it into definite