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Types of words

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We’ve gone into what counts as “proper speech”. Now we’re going to look at the three kinds of words in Arabic.

From the Ajurroomiyyah:

وَأقْسَامُهَا ثَلاثَةٌ: اسْمٌ وَفِعْلٌ وَحَرْفٌ جَاءَ لِمَعْنىً

And its (i.e. speech) divisions are three: اسم (ism), فِعْل (fi’l) and حَرْف (harf) that comes to give a meaning.

There are three kinds of words. We’ll go a little more into each, but they are:

That’s it. You will never find an Arabic word that isn’t one of these three. First, we’ll look at اسم’s

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We’re going to dive into what is actually considered “speech” in Arabic. To start with, the definition in Arabic is:

الكَلامُ هُوَ اللَفْظُ المُرَكَّبُ المُفِيْدُ بِالوَضْعِ

كَلام (speech) is beneficial (مُفِيد), composite (مُرَكَّب) utterance (لَفْط), upon established rules (بالوضع).