Course: 1 Topic 2: THE QUALITY OF ISIM ( NOUN) under Construction

 The most numerous of the Arabic words are the noun or ISIM. 

A. We had covered the the ways to identify if a word is an ISIM. They are:
a. look at its meaning.
b. The word begin with alif lam
c. The last letter is a tanween.
d. the word before it is haraf JAR.
e. The last letter is taa marbutah or an open ta. 

B. An ISIM (Noun) can be grouped into different categories based on the following:
a.  Gender - male or female
b. Number - One, Two or Many
c. Definitive or Not Definitive
d. Case Ending  

C, HANDLING ISIM (NOUNS)

In English language, when we meet a noun, we worry about only 2 items, the numbers, either singular or plural. We also concern whether it definite. Example the word CAT, singular CAT and many CATS. We are also concern whether it any CAT, we call it ... A CAT. If it is a particular CAT, we call it THE CAT.

However, for Arabic language, when we meet a noun or ISIM, we will be concerned about 4 items.  They are, the gender, number, definite or not and the case ending, is it kasrah, dommah or fathah. 

When you have a noun, you have to consider 4 items, its gender, its number, 
whether definite or not and the case of the last letter of the word.
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All nouns is either MALE or FEMALE. Some words has two form, female and male. However some words, the Male and Female are the same.
In the above examples, the male word is THOLIBA, the female is THOLIBAH.
Some word are male - QOLAM
Some word is female - SYAJARAH.
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The Top Rows: - mufrad and muthana
Bottom Rows: Mufrad and Jama'
Note the different between jama' salam and jama' takssir
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The definitive is like in English where we add "the " in front of the noun.
Example the house- it is a definite and the known house. In Arabic we add alif Lam
becomes al-bait, (the house)

RESOURCES:

1. Types of Arabic Nouns:  https://youtu.be/zBl-I9NGBWo

Course:1 Topic: 1 CLASSIFICATION OF ARABIC WORDS (Under Construction)

 

All the words in Arabic Language  الكلمة . In the Quran, there are above 70,000 words. All these words can be classified as:
1. Noun - Isim -  إسم -
2. Verb - Fiil   فَعَلَ - 
3. Preposition - Haraf - حرف

A. What is Isim - An Isim is the name of items, it does not matter if you can it or not.  The words that give meaning without relating to time.
1. How to recognize an Isim (noun) - For most isim, there are indications that we use to identify that it as isim.  However , some isim do not have an indicator.
a. Recognize the meaning - If you know the meaning, and the meaning is noun (isim), then the word is isim.  What if you do not know the meaning?, then ..
b. The word begins with alif lam  ( ال ) .  Alif Lam to show it is a known noun, like in English .. The Car, it is a known car.
c. The word end with tanween, a noon sound at the end. Example ..  وَلَدًٌ ,  وَلَدً,   ولدِ
d. The word after Haraf JAR, we will learn about haraf JAR
e. Words that exist with male and female form, example jamil  (male) and the female of it is jamiliah.
f. Words after exclamation, Yaa..  

B. FIIL /  VERB (  فعل )
The Verb or fiil are divided into 3 groups. They are words to show the action. Verbs are divided into 3 types: 
a. Past - الماضي (almadhi) - the root or default form of a word
2. Present and Future  - المضارع ( almudore' ), derived from the past tense, the last letter can change.
3. Command or order or request   الاءمر (al'amar), 

C. PREPOSITION AL HARAF  (الحرف)
The word by itself does not carry a meaning. 
Example:
- على - on
- من - from
- فى - in
- الى - to
Caution - the translation may change depends on the sentence

Video: Arabic Words Classification

                    

USING ARABIC CORPUS

I am building up the blog slowly. One of the items needed by learners is a reference books or webpages.

Arabic Corpus is one of a good site to refer to.

Among the things it offers are:

1. Word by word meaning

2. Translation

3. Root words

4. The words occurrence in the Quran.

5. Quranic grammar

The address are: http://corpus.quran.com/ as your reference. Here are the different ways it can be used.

A.  To check for meaning word by word .. http:       //corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp.

Here you can check the meaning of the ayat you are reading.

B. It also list down the the occurrence and the location of the word in Quran  

C. You can hear recital from selected readers

D. You can check translation by selected writer.

 I have found a page published the Guardian,

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/feb/07/learn-arabic-alphabet-table

Suggest , you go through it. I think it is built by English Speaking people and made for English Speaking readers.

Many peoples are not used to letters that change its form, depending on the location of it. It can be independant/ individual or begining or middle or at the end of a word.

The best way is to give example in a sentence ( ayat)

Learn Arabic grammar lesson 1

Let us start with the introduction to grammar I am using the 1 hour video series and divide the video into 2 parts. I feel an hour lesson online is too long.

PART 1 Arabic words are divided into 3 categories... 1. Nouns 2. Verbs 3. Haraf.

A. Arabic Words

B. Indefinite Nouns.
In English - the form is - a book.
To make it definite, we say - the book.

However in Arabic ,
indefinite - we add tanuwin - haza baitun
non definite - we ad alif lam.. albaitait . No tanuwin is allowed.

We look at english sentence.... This is a house
The Arabic sentence is ...  This House...
There is no .. is a ... which is called copula words.  There is no copula words in Arabic. The same is for Malay... Ini rumah.

In translating Arabic to English.. we will add the copula word to make it readable.

Reading from Right to left

- haza kitabon

- haza  qolamin

- haza miftaahun .

Various form of nouns (time 29min)
1. In nouns end with dommah (depan) 

Starting from Basic Arabic Alphabets

 I always wrongly assumed that everyone know the basic Arabic alphabets. The reality is, most do not know.

So that is where we start: The words are made up of letters, the basic alphabets...