Arabic Male/Masculine Names that end with Taa Marbuta ـة/ة

Taa Marbuta is normally associated with feminine nouns and adjectives. Here are some examples of Arabic names for males that end with Taa Marbuta.

عزة   Izzat
عنترة   Antarah
طرفة   Tarafa
أسامة    Osama
حمزة    Hamzah

خليفة    Khalifa

عقبة    Aqaba
طلحة   Talha

معاوية  Muawiya

عكرمة  Ikrima

Verb Form VIII الوزن إفتعل Assimilation of the ت

In Verb Measure VIII, the  ت  can undergo changes if the first radical is one of these dental consonants or vowels:

ت  ث  د  ذ  ز  ص  ض  ط  ظ  و  ي

تت ← تّ
دت ← دّ
ثت ← ثّ
يت ← تّ
وت ← تّ
زت ← زد
ذت ← دّ
صت ← صط
ضت ← ضط
طت ← طّ
ظت ← ظّ

Examples:

إزدحام    overcrowding ( ز ح م ) 
تصطدم   collide ( ص د م )
إضطرّ    forced ( ض ر ر )
إزداد         increased  ( ز ي د )
مزدوجة    dual / double ( ز و ج )
إتّصال      contact / connection ( و ص ل )
إتّفاق       deal / agreement ( و ف ق )

Terms we use to study Arabic

Some of the words we need to know to study Arabic. These words are part of the grammar terminology.

الأوزان      verb forms
جذر              root consonants
أصل / حروف أصلية  root letters
حركات      vowel marks (movements)
تنوين            indefinite marker, nunation for adverbs
الإﻋﺮﺍﺏ    Arabic case marking system
قواعد        grammar
حرف      letter, particle
الكلمات        words
مفردات    vocabulary
جملة       sentence
اسم         noun
الصفة        adjective
الفعل          verb, action
المصدر   verbal noun
اسم الفاعل      active participle (doer)
اسم المفعول   passive participle (recipient)
المعلوم          active voice (known)
المجهول      passive voice (unknown)
ضمير     pronoun
مفرد        singular
المثنى    dual
الجمع    plural
الماضي    past tense
المضارع  present tense
الاسم المعرفة   definite noun
الاسم النكرة      indefinite noun
الجملة الاسمية   nominal sentence
الجملة الفعل         verbal sentence
الإضافة      genitive construct, noun phrase
نفي               negation
المبتداء       subject of nominal sentence
الخبر            predicate of nominal sentence
الفاعل          subject of verbal sentence, doer
فعل                     verb
مفعول به       object of verb
مسند إليه        subject
مسند                  predicate
المرفوع       nominative, indicative
المنصوب   accusative, subjunctive
المجرور    genitive
المجزوم      jussive
الأمر            imperative
المتكلم        first person
المخاطب   second person
الغائب      third person
المذكر      masculine
المؤنث     feminine
اسم المكان     noun of place
اسم الزمان    noun of time
الممنوع من الصرف   diptotes
المشتقات   derived nouns
الاسم المنقوص   nouns ending with ي
الاسم الصحيح الممدود   nouns ending with اء
الاسم المقصور   nouns ending with ا / ى
صيغة المبالغة    hyperbolic participle, patterns of exaggeration/hyperbole
اسم المرة    emphasis nouns of instance, adverb
اسم الهيئة    emphasis nouns of manner, adverb
الصفة المشبهة  resembling participle
اسم الآلة   nouns of instrument
اسم الظرف / اسم المكان والزمان nouns of place and time
اسم التفضيل   nouns of comparative, superlative
الحال circumstantial accusative
المفعول به   object of transitive verb
المفعول المطلق   object of emphasis (usually المصدر )
المفعول فيه   adverb of time, place, manner
المفعول لأجله   object of purpose, reason (usually indefinite المصدر )
التمييز   accusative of specification

Elided Hamza and Sun and Moon Letters

Recite the following phrases to practice eliding the Hamza in the definite article ال and linking the first word with the second, noting the assimilation of the ل by the Sun letters.

في الأردن في التاجي

في البحرين في الثقبة‎‎

في الجزائر في الدوحة

في الحمرا في الذيبية

في الخرطوم في الرباط

في العراق في الزرقاء

في الغيضة في السعودية

في الشرق الأوسط ‎‎           في الفلوجة

في القاهرة في الصحراء الكبرى

في الكويت في الضفة الغربية

في المغرب في الطائف

في الهدار في الظهران

  في الوفرة             في اللاذقية

في اليمن  في النجف

Masdar Patterns of Form I Verbs

There are many verbal noun patterns ( الأوزان ) associated with Form I verbs. Here is a list of some of them.

فِعالة    فعْلة    فُعْلان    فُعول    فُعولة

فعل    فعْل    فُعْل    فعلة    مَفْعِلة

Words that sound or look alike 1.2

More words that might sound or look alike to the beginner.

عضو    member
عدو      enemy

الله      the God
آلة      tool, machine

حديقة     garden
حقيبة      bag
ضحك     laugh

بحث       search, discuss
حدث       event, happen, tell, speak
بث          broadcast

ReadSpeaker Arabic Voice Reader on Aljazeera.net

If you like to learn Arabic by reading articles on Aljazeera.net, you can now listen to the text in Arabic.

On many articles, find the ReadSpeaker control, and click the play button.

The control will then change shape, and a voice will start speaking the text in Arabic.

The controls allow you to move forward and back in the article, change the volume, adjust various settings, and even download an MP3 sound file of the voiced article.

Al Jazeera Arabic Live Stream on Youtube

If you are in the USA, and want to watch Al Jazeera Arabic's live stream, you can use the TOR web browser, or a proxy service, and watch it on Youtube.

Listening to the Iraqi dialect

If you are interested in learning the Iraqi dialect, a good show to watch is البغدادية والناس (Baghdadia and the People). This show is uploaded every few days on the Youtube channel AlBaghdadia. In each program, the host goes to a location in Baghdad, and gives people on the street the chance to speak out about current issues in Iraq. Each program is under an hour. This show could be helpful in learning the Iraqi dialect and informal speech, because you can see and hear ordinary Iraqi people speaking.

Sample programs:

Online Hans Wehr dictionary

I found a site with an online version of the Hans Wehr 4th Edition dictionary, and it is searchable.

Go to here:

Online Hans Wehr dictionary

And click on Search, and enter a root. For example, if you enter the root كتب , it will take you to page 951 of the Hans Wehr dictionary. The new page may take awhile to show up. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow.

Al Arabiya broadcasting live on YouTube in USA

Al Arabiya is broadcasting a live stream again on YouTube, and right now it's not blocked in the USA. This comes on and then gets blocked from time to time.



Al Arabiya airs a variety of programs.

If you only want to listen to the news, go to the Al Arabiya Al Hadath live stream.

Words that sound or look alike 1.1

More words that might sound or look alike to the beginner.

طبعاً        of course, naturally
تعبان        tired

بيضة       egg
بعض       some

ثأر      revenge   ( ث ء ر )
ثار      stir, revolt   ( ث و ر )
آثار     monuments    ( ء ث ر )

نفس       same
نصف    half

حيفا    Haifa (the city)
هيفا    Haifa (girl's name)

فرصة      opportunity
فرض       impose
قرض      loan

متخلّف  backward, undeveloped
مختلف   different

Spelling the Arabic Letters

This is a post for real beginners. How do you spell the Arabic letters?

ألف   باء   تاء   ثاء   جيم   حاء   خاء
دال   ذال   راء   زاي   سين   شين   صاد
ضاد   طاء   ظاء   عين   غين   فاء   قاف
كاف   لام   ميم   نون   هاء   واو   ياء
همزة

Al Arabiya TV News Transcripts in Arabic and English

I recently found a resource that could help with learning Arabic, especially with listening skills. The satellite news network Al Arabiya posts translations in English and transcripts in Arabic for it's News Bulletins along with the video of the program. The videos also have a Closed Captioning "CC" button so you can read the Arabic or English script.

Just go their News Bulletin page:

http://english.alarabiya.net/webtv/news-bulletin.html

And click on the latest video or scroll down to "Latest News Bulletins". Click on a bulletin, and another page opens with a video, translation and transcript.

Example:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/webtv/news-bulletin/2015/07/06/1300GMT.html

To see the Arabic transcript of the program, click on "Transcripts".

Strong and Elidable Hamza

Examples of words with strong hamza  همزة القطع and elidable hamza همزة الوصل ٱ.

همزة القطع

أَنَّ    that
إِنَّ    indeed, ( "that" for قال )
أَنْ    to
إِنْ    if, negation particle in Quran
أَب
أُم
أحمد
إلى to

Form IV perfect verbs and imperative verbs


همزة الوصل ٱ
ال
اِسم
اِبن
اِبنة
اِمرأة
اِثنان
Form I imperative verbs
Form VII to X perfect verbs, imperative verbs and masdars.

Passive Participles and Passive Verbs

Examples of sentences with passive participles and passive verbs.

كَسَرَ الرجلُ طاولةً في الغرفةِ

the man broke a table in the room

في الغرفةِ طاولةٌ مكسورٌ

a broken table is in the room

في الغرفةِ كُسِرَ طاولةٌ

a table was broken in the room

Past Continuous and Negation

Examples of past continuous with negation.

ما كانَتْ المرأةُ تأكلُ الفاكهةَ

لم تكُنْ المرأةُ تأكلُ الفاكهةَ

the woman was not eating the fruit

Live Stream of Arabic News Channels

You can practice listening and reading with news programs. Many Arab TV networks are on YouTube and stream live on their own websites. Here are links to the live stream of some major channels:

CNBC Arabia

Al Arabiya Al Hadath

Al Arabiya (may be blocked)

Al Jazeera Arabic

BBC Arabic

Sky News Arabia

Al Mayadeen

Live broadcast of Al Arabiya's regular news channel is blocked in the USA, but it's other channel, Al Hadath, is not blocked. You can use a proxy server ( e.g. from http://free-proxy-list.net/uk-proxy.html ) to watch Al Arabiya's regular channel.

You can also try the TOR web browser to watch Al Jazeera Arabic.

These sites stream many different Arab channels:

Livestation

Fomny
GLArab

Words with Dagger Alif ألف خنجرية‎

Some common words with ألف خنجرية‎ .

الله    God
هٰذا    this
هٰذه    this (f)
ذٰلك    that
إلٰه      a god
الرحمٰن  merciful
لٰكن      but
هٰؤلاء    these
أولٰئك    those
هٰكذا     thus

Negation 1.1 لا النافية للجنس

Examples of Absolute Negation لا النافية للجنس .

في الغرفةِ رجلٌ كبيرٌ

a big man is in the room

لا رجلَ كبيراً في الغرفةِ

there is no big man in the room


لا الرجلُ في الغرفةِ ولا المرأةُ
neither the man is in the room, nor the woman
لا رجلَ في الغرفةِ ولا إمرأةَ
neither a man is in the room, nor is a woman
لا في الغرفةِ رجلٌ ولا إمرأةٌ
in the room is neither a man nor a woman

The most famous absolute negation is from الشهادة :

لا إلهَ إلّا اللهُ

there is no god except the God