Saturday, March 29, 2008
A Puzzle
Some Creativity
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
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.
Did you find it difficult? Go through it again, is easy!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
What do you call them?
Do you know what are these things called in Urdu? Pronounce their name as you scroll down.
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
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
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.