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عيد الفطر - Eid al-Fitr - The festival that marks the end of Ramadan
عيد الأضحى - Eid al-Adha - The festival that marks the end of the Haj Pilgrimage
عيد الفصح - Eid al-Fi97 - Easter
عيد الميلاد - Eid al-Meelaad - Christmas

كل عام وأنتم بخير
Best wishes for every year

شكرآ for another fun lesson!Very timely and all so useful.I could use 'عيدمبارك 'to my Arabic friend actually,it was great.^^
And the explanation about'Allah'gave me further understanding.
عيدالفطر was a news on Japanese main evening news as well,though there are very few Japanese Muslims.

BTW,I would like to ask a question.When I see the script,in the أ. تفضلوا زورونا اليوم.
I couldn't understand why اstands alone after تفضلو .I would be appriciate with an explanation for this.

@Kurumi
Certain verb forms in Arabic end in و
In such cases, a silent alif is placed after the waaw, to AVOID MISTAKING THE WAAW FOR A CONJUNCTION.
This is called 'alif of protection' or ألف الوقاية

@Kurumi
I forgot to mention this in my previous comment.

The verb forms in Arabic ending in waaw are -
They masculine past tense
You masculine plural subjunctive
They masculine subjunctive
Masculine plural imperative

@vinod
Thank you very much for your support,now I understood.^^ I had thought that it would have something to do with grammatical thing,but for me,it seems like a numerical formula rather than a sentence.Quite interesting usage.wow..♥

And شكرآ again for those additional explanations.I will check another lessons to examine this ا.Inshalla.(I tryed to type 'Inshalla' in Arabic but couldn't.I found 2 more ? letters in it,which are ءand،!
Do you mind if I ask what they are?

@ Kurumi,

The first letter (ء) is called (hamza), and it is really part of the letter alif (أ) which sounds like the (u) in (under). We normally use (2) replace it in our transcripts as there is no equivalent for it in English, so you say (samaa2 سماء) which is (sky). Search for (sky) in the Dictionary link (above) to know how it is pronounced.

The (،) is just a punctuation, and it is simply the Arabic version of the comma (,) so it is not really a letter.

@ehab
thank you for the explanation.Since I hardly know about Arabic writings,I feel that I need to work on it right now.I've checked how to write Arabic Alphabets written in Japanese,but they are very difficult! At least I got some information suited for my level.Also when I input new words,I want sound of them. Shukran for the excellent resources.^^

@Kurumi,

You probably would like to try (Kalimat), it is a game in our Activities page, you will find it under ArabicPod activities in page 2. The game is like (hangman game), so it allows you to see some Arabic words before and while being joint. Hope you find it useful.

@Ehab
شكرآ for your advice,it always helps.I tried Kalimat for the first time and found it very useful.Honestly,I haven't remembered enough words to keep on doing that game,but hope to be able to catch up soon.I'm fired up!

Hi,
Thanks for the lesson. I was wondering what letters are used in arabic to write the word "Allah", I'm not sure I recognise the all...

@gwenmartineau,

Alif + Lam + Lam + Haa

ا لـ لـ ـه

الله

Thanks ArabicLover!

Another question: is اجيa verb to say "I come" in arabic for all situations ?

Yes, (آجي) means (I come) in colloquial Arabic.

Thanks Ehab!