August 31st, 2010 6 comments
Halal, which basically means permissible, has been widely associated in the west with food in recent years. It's a significant topic in the Arabic language and culture, so ArabicPod deemed it fit to present a lesson about it.

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niny says
Wed 1st Sep 10@07:17 am

Asalamulaiakum ya aki
Sun and moon letters, meaning masculine and feminine? How does one know what is sun and moon?
Sonia says
Wed 1st Sep 10@10:40 am

Alsalamo 3alekom ya Ehab wa M7amd !
Thank you guys a lot for this great job (in teaching arabic to the world ) you guys are doing!
It's really great masha2Allah.

I've got the same question (as the user above asked) how do we know which are the sun letters and which are the moon ones?

Desmond says
Wed 1st Sep 10@11:02 am

There's an article about sun and moon letters in the English version of Wikipedia.
Moshaya says
Wed 1st Sep 10@06:50 pm

Thanks Desmond for the wiki info, I'll put some notes on these letters here for everyone's convenience.

There are 14 sun letters ÍÑæÝ ÔãÓíÉ which are:
ﻥ ,ﻝ ,ﻅ ,ﻁ ,ﺽ ,ﺹ ,ﺵ ,ﺱ ,ﺯ ,ﺭ ,ﺫ ,ﺩ ,ﺙ ,ﺕ

And 14 moon letters ÍÑæÝ ÞãÑíÉ:
å ,ﻱ ,ﻭ ,ﻡ ,ﻙ ,ﻕ ,ﻑ ,ﻍ ,ﻉ ,ﺥ ,ﺡ ,ﺝ ,ﺏ ,Á

If a word starting with a sun letter is preceded by Çá ‘al’, then the second letter in ‘al’ which makes the L sound is not pronounced, instead the sun letter is stressed. Perhaps the following example will help:

ÔãÓ means sun and is pronounced ‘shams’. If you define it by adding Çá -> ÇáÔãÓ the pronunciation will sound like ‘ash-shams’ as opposed to ‘alshams’.

With moon letters, you basically pronounce the L of the definite article ‘al’. For example:

Þáã means pen and is pronounced ‘qalam’. If you define it ÇáÞáã the pronunciation is ‘alqalam’ and not ‘aq-qalam’ since Þ is a moon letter

Hope this is clear
Tue 16th Nov 10@03:01 am

wow
Sat 22nd Jan 11@09:06 am

Thanks for the wonderful lesson.
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