Arabic vocabulary: Countries & languages – 28 words with pictures, audio & printable flashcards

يمكن يكون من زي الثورة العربية؟؟

Maybe it's from the uniform of the Arab Revolt??

كل شي مدفوع من النادي الفرنسي.

Everything is paid by the French club.

هِيَ سَائِحَةٌ مِنْ بَلَدٍ بَعِيدٍ.

She is a tourist from a far country.

جَاءَ اَلْمَاءُ مِنَ اَلشَّرْقِ وَمِنَ اَلْغَرْبِ، وَأَحَاطَ بِهِمَا.

The water came from the east and from the west, and surrounded them.

كَانَتْ تُؤْمِنُ بِأَنَّ الْمَرْأَةَ تَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ تَتَعَلَّمَ وَأَنْ تُسَاعِدَ وَطَنَهَا.

She believed that a woman could learn and help her country.

وَفِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ، حَمَلَ الصُّنْدُوقُ آخِرَ كِسْوَةٍ مِصْرِيَّةٍ إِلَى مَكَّةَ، وَحَمَلَ مَعَهُ ذِكْرَى عَمَلٍ اسْتَمَرَّ قُرُونًا.

And on that day, the box carried the last Egyptian covering to Mecca, and carried with it the memory of work that had continued for centuries.

العنوان مكتوب بالعربي والإنجليزي، وفيه ختم من دائرة الطابو الفلسطينية

The address is written in Arabic and English, and it has a stamp from the Palestinian Land Registry

وَإِذَا فَازَتْ، فَسَتُصْبِحُ أَوَّلَ امْرَأَةٍ مَغْرِبِيَّةٍ وَعَرَبِيَّةٍ وَأَفْرِيقِيَّةٍ تَفُوزُ بِمِيدَالِيَّةٍ ذَهَبِيَّةٍ أُولِمْبِيَّةٍ.

If she won, she would become the first Moroccan, Arab, and African woman to win an Olympic gold medal.

لقيت خبر قديم من جريدة عراقية وأنا أبحث بالنت.

I found an old news story from an Iraqi newspaper while searching the web.

نعم. بس فيه عيلة إسرائيلية ساكنة فيه من الخمسينات البيت تحول لمبنى مسجل باسم "أملاك الغائبين" من الدولة، وبعدين بيع لعيلة يهودية جاية من بولندا

Yes. But there is an Israeli family living in it since the fifties The house was turned into a building registered as 'Absentees' Property' by the state, and then it was sold to a Jewish family coming from Poland

الْحِجَارَةُ كَانَتْ عَلَامَاتٍ وَضَعَهَا الْبَدْوُ مُنْذُ مِئَاتِ السِّنِينَ لِيَجِدُوا طَرِيقَهُمْ فِي الْعَاصِفَةِ.

The stones were markers placed by the Bedouins hundreds of years ago to find their way in the storm.

الْيَوْمَ، يَأْتِي سُيَّاحٌ مِنْ كُلِّ الْعَالَمِ لِيَرَوْا الْحَمَّامَ الرُّومَانِيَّ تَحْتَ الْفُنْدُقِ.

Today, tourists come from all over the world to see the Roman bath under the hotel.

فُتِحَتِ الرِّسَالَةُ فِي حُضُورِ القَاضِي وَبَعْضِ كِبَارِ رِجَالِ المَدِينَةِ، وَاسْتُدْعِيَ يُوسُفُ عَلَى عَجَلٍ لِقِرَاءَتِهَا؛ لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ الوَحِيدَ بَيْنَهُمْ الَّذِي يُتْقِنُ الخَطَّ الفَارِسِيَّ الدَّقِيقَ الَّذِي كُتِبَتْ بِهِ الرِّسَالَةُ.

The letter was opened in the presence of the judge and some of the city's prominent men, and Yusuf was summoned in haste to read it; because he was the only one among them who mastered the precise Persian script in which the letter was written.

سَأَلَ سَامِرٌ جَدَّتَهُ: «هَلْ هَذِهِ عَادَةٌ قَدِيمَةٌ؟» قَالَتْ: «فِي بَيْتِنَا، وَفِي بُيُوتٍ أُرْدُنِّيَّةٍ كَثِيرَةٍ، نَبْدَأُ بِالضَّيْفِ.»

Samer asked his grandmother: “Is this an old custom?” She said: “In our home, and in many Jordanian homes, we start with the guest.”

نفس الصورة اللي شفتها بموقع صور مجانية أجنبي 😐

The same photo that I saw on a foreign free stock photo site 😐

هذا زر صغير من نحاس، مو من زي الجيش العثماني!!

This is a small button of brass, not from the Ottoman army uniform!!

العنوان مكتوب بالعربي والإنجليزي، وفيه ختم من دائرة الطابو الفلسطينية

The address is written in Arabic and English, and it has a stamp from the Palestinian Land Registry

وَإِذَا فَازَتْ، فَسَتُصْبِحُ أَوَّلَ امْرَأَةٍ مَغْرِبِيَّةٍ وَعَرَبِيَّةٍ وَأَفْرِيقِيَّةٍ تَفُوزُ بِمِيدَالِيَّةٍ ذَهَبِيَّةٍ أُولِمْبِيَّةٍ.

If she won, she would become the first Moroccan, Arab, and African woman to win an Olympic gold medal.

وَلِمِئَاتِ السِّنِينَ، أَرْسَلَتْ مِصْرُ الْكِسْوَةَ إِلَى مَكَّةَ فِي مَوْكِبٍ كَبِيرٍ.

For hundreds of years, Egypt sent the covering to Mecca in a large procession.

فِي زَمَنٍ بَعِيدٍ، كَانَتْ هُنَاكَ حَرْبٌ قُرْبَ مَدِينَةِ الْقُدْسِ.

In a distant time, there was a war near the city of Jerusalem.

كَانَ عُمْرُهَا وَاحِدًا وَعِشْرِينَ عَامًا، وَكَانَتْ تَلْبَسُ قَمِيصَ الْمَغْرِبِ الْأَحْمَرَ.

She was twenty-one years old. She was wearing Morocco’s red shirt.

عندي صاحبة بيافا، أختها بتشتغل بمركز توثيق تاريخ فلسطين خليني أرسل لها صورة السند، وبتقولك إذا البيت ما زال موجود

I have a friend in Jaffa, her sister works at the Palestine History Documentation Center Let me send her a picture of the deed, and she'll tell you if the house is still there

سؤال: شو عاصمة الأردن؟

Question: What is the capital of Jordan?

كَانَ صَوْتُهُ يَأْتِي مِنْ حُفْرَةِ النَّارِ الْقَدِيمَةِ خَلْفَ الْبَيْتِ، حَيْثُ يُحَضِّرُ الْمَنْدِيَّ الْيَمَنِيَّ كَمَا فَعَلَ أَبُوهُ وَجَدُّهُ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ.

His voice used to come from the old fire pit behind the house, where he prepares the Yemeni Mandi as his father and grandfather did before him.

اَلْيَوْمَ هُوَ فِي مَلْعَبِ الرَّبَاطِ.

Today he is in the Rabat stadium.

الْمَلِكُ رِيتْشَارْد كَانَ قَائِدَ الْإِنْجِلِيزِ، وَصَلَاحُ الدِّينِ كَانَ قَائِدَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ.

King Richard was the leader of the English, and Saladin was the leader of the Muslims.

كَانَتْ لَيْلَى تُحَدِّقُ فِي شَاشَةِ هَاتِفِهَا بِتَرَكُّزٍ شَدِيدٍ، وَهِيَ تَعُدُّ الدَّقَائِقَ المُتَبَقِّيَةَ قَبْلَ مَوْعِدِ انْقِطَاعِ الكَهْرَبَاءِ المُعْتَادِ فِي حَيِّهَا القَاهِرِيِّ.

Layla was staring at her phone screen with intense concentration, as she counted the remaining minutes before the scheduled time of the usual power outage in her Cairene neighborhood.

بَكَتْ نَوَالُ مِنَ الْفَرَحِ، وَرَفَعَتْ عَلَمَ الْمَغْرِبِ.

Nawal cried with joy and raised the Moroccan flag.