Ultimate Arabic

السلام عليكم

We’ve looked at the three types of words that exist in Arabic.  Now we’re going to look at how to tell which kind a word is.  For each type there are certain signs that tell you immediately that a word is that type.

First, we’re going to look at the signs that tell us that a word is an اسم.  There are some new words here, but don’t be alarmed because we’ll break it down for you.

فَالاسْمُ يُعْرَفُ: بَالْخَفْضِ وَالتَّنْوِيْنِ وَدَخُوْلِ الأَلِفِ وَالََلامِ وَحُرُوْفِ الْخَفْضِ

The ism is recognized by خَفْض, tanwin, the entrance of ا and ل, the particles of خَفْض.

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The فِعل (Verb)

We’ve mentioned that there are only three kinds of words and gone over the first kind (the اسم/noun).  Now, we’re going to look at the second type: the فِعل (verb). We’ve said previously that an اِسْم is a word that indicates a meaning that is not associated with any time period.

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السلام عليكم و رحمة الله

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:

1. اسْم (Noun)
2. فِعْل (Verb)
3. حَرْف (Particle)

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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السلام عليكم و رحمة الله

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).

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