Arabic Words You Must Know

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The following Arabic words are extremely useful if you you want to start speaking Arabic.

Learning the Arabic language starts by building your own vocabulary.

If you are traveling to Arabic countries, or simply you just want to start speaking and learning Arabic, these are the most important words you will need to know, in order to communicate with Arabic people.

I want you to know one thing before you start memorizing these Arabic words, they are a mix of modern Arabic and dialect (mainly Egyptian dialect); because this is how Arabic language works, mixing and blending a local/regional dialect with modern Arabic.

The only spoken language that is understood in all Arabic countries, is the Egyptian Arabic dialect, and this is what I am giving you here.

Note:

m = male

f = female

Here is your first list of Arabic words

ENGLISH --------------- | -------------- ARABIC

• I, me ------------------------- ana
• you (m)------------------------ enta
• you (f)------------------------ enti
• you (plural)------------------- ento, or entom
• he ---------------------------- ho'wa
• she --------------------------- he'ya
• they--------------------------- ho'mma
• yes --------------------------- aywa, or na'am
• no ---------------------------- la
• when -------------------------- emta
• why --------------------------- laih
• where ------------------------- fain
• where is the... --------------- fain el....
• where is the bank ------------- fain el bnk (bank without the 'a')
• where is the hotel ------------ fain el o'tail
• how much ? (anything quantitative) ------ kaam ?
• how much ? (asking for price) -- be kaam ?
• how much is this ? ------------- be kaam dah ?
• how many.... ? --------------------- kaam ....?
• how many kilos (kg or km) ? -------- kaam kilo ?
• how much is the kilo ? (price) ---- be-kam el kilo ?
• too much ----------------------- keteer
• expensive ---------------------- ghali
• from -------------------------- min
• the --------------------------- el, or al
• koo-wa-yes (one word) --------- good (d)
• mosh koo-wa-yes --------------- not good (d)

I Want To Go To .....

I've arranged the following Arabic words so they are handy for you when you are travelling, when you want to go somewhere and you need to communicate with an Arabic speaking person.

Here are the Arabic words you will need.

ENGLISH --------------- | -------------- ARABIC

• going -------------------------- ra'yeh
• I am going (m) ----------------- ana ra'yeh
• I am going (f) ----------------- ana ra'yha
• I am going to Dubai (m) -------- ana ra'yeh Dubai
• where are you going ? (m) ------- enta ra'yeh fain ?
• where are you going ? (f) ------- enti ra'yha fain ?
• I want (m) ---------------------- a'wez
• I want (f) ---------------------- a'wza
• I want to go (m) ---------------- a'wez arooh
• I want to go (f) ---------------- a'wza arooh
• I want to go to the Pyramid (m)----- a'wez arooh el haram
• the pyramid ------------------------ el haram
• the pyramids ----------------------- el ahram, or el ahramatt
• the red sea ------------------------ al-bahr al-ahmar
• sharm al-shaikh -------------------- sharm al-shaik
• Sinai ------------------------------ seena
• the nile --------------------------- el neel
• the gulf --------------------------- al khaleeg, or al khaleej
• United Arab emirates -------------al-imarat al-arabya al- mottahida (or al-imaratt, for short)
• left ------------------------------- shemal
• right ------------------------------ y'meen
• go left ---------------------------- rooh shemal
• straight --------------------------- ala tool
• from here -------------------------- men hina
• from there ------------------------- men hinak
• taxi ------------------------------- taxi
• bus -------------------------------- otobees
• down town -------------------------- west el balad

Places

And here is another list of Arabic words I've compiled for you, they are the names of the places you might need to go to.

If you are serious about speaking Arabic, or traveling to Arabic countries, I would advice you to add these words to your vocabulary.

ENGLISH --------------- | -------------- ARABIC

• square ----------------------------- midan
• bridge ----------------------------- kobri
• airplane --------------------------- t'yyarah
• airport ---------------------------- mataar
• the airport ------------------------- el mataar
• I want to go to the airport (m) ----- a'wez arooh el mataar
• ship ------------------------------- safina, or markib
• port ------------------------------- minaa
• hotel ------------------------------ o'tail
• restaurant -------------------------- mut'am
• market ------------------------------ souq
• shop -------------------------------- mahhal
• supermarket ------------------------- supermarket
• cafeteria --------------------------- cafeteria
• hospital ---------------------------- mostashfa
• pharmacy ---------------------------- sidali'ia
• medicine ---------------------------- da'wa
• police ------------------------------ bolice (with a big B)
• police station ---------------------- markaz el bolice
• post office ------------------------- maktab el bareed

One last word, before I leave you with the list.......

As I told you in the beginning, the above Arabic words are a mix of modern Arabic and Egyptian Arabic dialect, this is the spoken language you will need to learn to communicate with an Arabic person and be understood.

The reason I am repeating this, is that I found most of the websites on the internet teaching Arabic words in regional/local dialects without letting you know that; in such a case you will certainly face difficulties when you are not in that specific region, or when you are talking to someone from a different Arabic country.

All the best

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