Saturday, March 29, 2008

A Puzzle

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You know what is this right? MASJIDun



BAITun A HOUSE





Some Creativity

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What do you call DOOR in arabic?



Can you guess?






















































It's written in the image itself, can you see it?
































Okay! hint is to use the highlighted parts of image below.

Did you get it? Use your creativity!














Yeah!! Thats right!
Place those two handles horizontally to form BA and the line between them vertically to form ALIF. Like this ...



So next time when you hold the handle (or knob) of your door do remember that word for DOOR is BAABun

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Lets do some mathematics

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Lets use some mathematics to learn two very important words, namely Mother and Father!

What is the word in urdu (with simple pronounciation)am I correct? Okay then let us ARABIFY the word Ma. In the first step, we will pass the word through Arabic Filter (AF), which will filter out non-arabic alphabets.



(since PA sound is not there in Arabic)


Now take the inverse of this outcome.

But since mother is more emotional, add a TASHDEED to Meem and RAF' (Oo sound) to Alif, so we get UMMUN and ABUN (ofcourse the un sound is default).



Did you find it difficult? Go through it again, is easy!








Monday, March 24, 2008

Correcting a mistake

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

What do you call them?

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Do you know what are these things called in Urdu? Pronounce their name as you scroll down.

































Yes! you have got it right!




This is what they are called in urdu..
KURSI, QALAM and KAMEEZ.
Can you guess what it is called in Arabic?

Its very similar, only thing you need to do is make a note of its SPELLING.




So here it is....


Note that shirt is QAMEES (slight change in pronounciation). And don't forget the Tanween at its end (the un sound).

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

SAREER

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Can you read this Hindi word ? Yes! Perhaps all of you can read it and know what it means! Right?


Incase you can not, then it is pronounced as SHAREER and it means BODY in Hindi.





So what does our body requires after a tedious day? You know it right!



What do we call it in Arabic ?













It is



So you see it is simple -- Replace the of body with to get A BED.



So you now know what is the word for bed in arabic. It is






Ofcourse do not forget the un sound at the end. So if pronounced completely it is SAREERUN and it means A BED.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Kitaab

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As we know that in Urdu means book. But have you ever heard this in Arabic as well? Yes, ofcourse! In fact many times while reading Qur'aan we encounter this word and it has been adopted from Arabic into Urdu.



So now you know what does Kitaab means, isn't it?


Let me tell some thing more. What are those two spoons or sticks, which you find at the end of most of the arabic words? These are called TANWEEN. Strike a steel spoon against other and you will get the sound they produce. (t)un, (t)an, (t)in.


Spoon is default tool for eating Maggi (unless you are Chinese), so is un sound default ending for most of arabic words (unless there is a reason to change it to stick(s) or an exeption).


So if you pronounce Kitaab completely, you will pronounce it as Kitaabun and it will mean A BOOK.