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Gharib (غريب), for example, usually means poor and not "strange, foreign" though it can also mean the latter in certain contexts, e.g. There are also words that are what language teachers call "false friends" : Kalam = كلام = speech, especially the words of a poet Marhoom = مرحوم = is often used when referring to people who have passed on not unlike allah yarhamuh. Sahib = صاحب = companion, friend, used as Mister in HindiĪynak = عين = from eye (ain), means spectacles in HindiĪlim = عالم = scholar, scientist, learned personįilhal = فى الحال = currently, at the moment Mukarram = مكرم = from كرم karam, generosity Ya3ni = يعني = which means, meaning, also a "conversation filler"
Silsila = سلسلة = chain, Hindi = series of eventsīilkol = بالكل = "all of it", derives from كل Punjabi/Sikh nameĭimag = دماغ = intellect in Hindi, though the Arabic word could mean "head", "skull", and "brain" as wellĪzmat = عظمة = greatness, derived from above root Shukriya = شكر = thank you, not an exact copy, "ya" is addedĪjib = عجيب = strange, derived from above rootĪjaib = عجايب = plural of ajab, same root. Mabhoom = مبهوم = hidden, unknown future event Takriban = تقريبا = approximately, almost Whatever the avenues are, here are some words that I did recognize, with the Arabic spelling and Arabic meaning, which the Hindi derives from, but may deviate somewhat from. Another was through Muslim scholars using these words from Arabic texts and they made their way into the vernacular. One was via Farsi (Persian) as an intermediate, having been the language of the court for the Mughal emperors. And I could detect more words in the few Hindi Bollywood movies that I have seen as well.Īrabic influence on Hindi may have been via several avenues. When asking about the meaning, they were indeed Arabic. Some letters have an emphatic sound, so the letter corresponding to the main sound is repeated.Having worked with many people from India and Pakistan in the 1990s, I was often fascinated by words that sounded Arabic in origin. Some of the sounds are not in English, so numbers where used instead. A list of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, showing the name of each Arabic letter in English. The lesson will show these Arabic letters in English writing to make it easier for beginners. In this lesson, we will cover the core 28 letters of Arabic, in addition to these extended characters and combinations. Hamzah (sounds as a glottal stop, as in the expression uh-oh) ء.In addition, it is necessary to learn a number of additional characters or letter combinations, such as: In general, there are 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet (alif baa taa). One way to refer to the Arabic writing system is “ Abjad“, which refers to how each Arabic letter corresponds to a consonant sound. Learn them well so that you can start recognizing the letters in any word in Arabic. We should notice the different shapes of each letter, and also the sounds.
Here is a comprehensive list of all Arabic letters and how they are written. A very important starting points for beginners is to learn the Arabic alphabet.