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Lesson 25: Quran Dictionary
ت
أن You, mentioned 81 times in the Quran
2nd Ayah of Surah 90 Sūrah Al-Balad:
And you [Prophet] are an inhabitant of this city
تأن You All, mentioned 136 times in the Quran
3rd Ayah of Surah 109 (Sūrat Al-Kafiroon):
I will never worship what you (all) worship
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امتأن You Two, mentioned 1 times in the Quran
35th Ayah of Surah 28 (Sūrat Al-Qasas):
God said, ‘We shall strengthen you through your brother; We shall give you both power so that they cannot touch you. With Our signs you (two), and those who follow you, will triumph.’ TODAY WE HAVE LEARNT AT LEAST 218 WORDS FROM
THE QURAN
PLUS 14,575 FROM LAST TIME, WE HAVE NOW LEARNT:
14,793 WORDS IN TOTAL!
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Lesson 25: Summary of Lessons
Well done on reaching lesson 25, we are really proud of your achievement! Below we have summarised what you have learnt so far. Did you know that you have learnt almost 90% of the grammar words in the Qurans! That means that if a Surah has 10 words in it, you will now know 9 of them. For some Surahs like Surah An-Naas, you will know all the words. Let’s summarise what we have learnt 1) The main lessons (about a quarter of the words in the Quran)
Lesson
Image Brief description Symbol Example No.
1) How to Study Arabic
An introduction to the syllabus
2) I, we, he, she, they
Personal pronouns
Meet Ahmad. Ahmad has gone has gone to the park with four of his family members Abdullah, he is near the swings Maryam, she is near the slides.
PRON – Pronoun
ضمير
3,301
3) Boys and Girls Masculine and feminine
Because Asma is a girl, she is described in a certain way. We would say “she is hard working, kind and loving”. As a boy, Abu Bakr is described with “he is patient, truthful and trustworthy”.
PRON – Pronoun
ضمير
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4) One, Two and More Singular, Dual and Plural
Meet Aminah below. Sometimes Aminah likes to play by herself. Sometimes she likes to play with her best friend Asia, like two best friends. Sometimes he likes to play with all her friends, that is 3 or more of them:
PRON – Pronoun
ضمير
5) First, Second and Third Person
Afeef is talking about himself, in the first person. Sometimes Afeef is talking about me directly, in the second person
Afeef also talks about other people not present in the third person.
PRON – Pronoun
ضمير
6) Hugging Pronouns Pronouns attached to past tense verbs
Meet Ayah and Hamza who are brother and sister. Sometimes they like to stand without hugging, but other times, they like to hug:
Pronouns are the same. Sometimes they like to hug other words, but sometimes they don’t.
PRON – Pronoun
ضمير
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7) Hugging Pronouns Pronouns attached to present tense
Meet Ayah and Hamza who are brother and sister. Sometimes they like to stand without hugging, but other times, they like to hug:
Pronouns are the same. Sometimes they like to hug other words, but sometimes they don’t.
PRON – Pronoun
ضمير
8) My, our, his, her, their Possessive Personal Pronouns Attached to nouns 9) Quran Review
“Have you seen my cricket bat?” She says, looking worried. “No”, they reply. “That is our bat”. “No”, they reply. “That belongs to Ali, it is his bat”
PRON – Pronoun
ضمير
10) Me, us, him, her, them Object Personal Pronouns attached to prepositions or verbs 11) Quran Review 12) Quran Review 13) Quran Review 14) Revision of Level 2 15) Level 3 Introduction
Dad says “Who made Aminah and Ibrahim cry? Who hit them?” The answers start coming back: “It was Nuh who hit Ibrahim, he hit him”. “It was Layla who hit Amina, she hit her”.
PRON – Pronoun
ضمير
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16) The words ‘the’ and ‘a’ in Arabic Definite Article
Whenever Zaynab leaves the house she has to take a fluffy toy. Bubbles is the special fluffy toy that she loves the most and is the only one that she likes to have in her bed when she is sleeping. We could say that this is the special fluffy toy.
ال
17) And, or, then Conjunctions 18) Surah Practice - Surah An-Naas
It’s the weekend and Layla is really excited. Her dad says after eating healthy all week, she can finally have a treat. But there are five rules Once she completes memorising her Quran, then she can have a cupcake or a chocolate bar.
CONJ – coordinating conjunction
رررررفرحر عطف ر
756
19) In, on, from Prepositions 20) Surah Practice - Surah Al-Falaq 21) Surah Practice - Surah Al-Iklaas
Abu Bakr loves playing with his lego He has been looking since the morning, but he cannot find it He has looked in his toy box. He has looked on the table.
P – preposition
ر رجرررفرحرر
7,769
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22) This, that, these, those Demonstrative Pronouns
Shouting with excitement, Inayah calls “mum, mum, look at this ladybird!” Suddenly a whole group of ladybirds started to crawl towards her. Inayah shouts “look at these”.
DEM – Demonstrative Pronoun
ة راررشراررمرسرار
1,059
23) When, where, how Adverbs of time
“Dad, where are we going?” Dad replies that they are going to Snowdonia! Juwayria is super excited. She then asks her mum: “Mum, when are we going?” Mum replies that we are going this coming Saturday. Zakariya then asks his dad: “But dad, how are we going to get there?”
T – Time Adverb
ان رمرزررفرررظر
1,166
23) When, where, how Adverbs of Location
LOC – location adverb
ان ركرمررفرررظر
699
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24) Which, That, Who Relative Pronouns
“I loved the present that my Uncle Ahmad gave me. It was an amazing book about animals”. Aisha is really excited and she wants to learn more. “I also loved the present, which was given to me by my grandmother. She bought me a giant teddy bear”.
REL – Relative Pronoun
ل رورصرورمررمرسرار
3,321
18,071
2) Words mentioned which we will revisit (about 65% of the words in the Quran)
1) Nouns N – Noun مسرار
25,135
2) Proper nouns PN – Proper Noun ملرعررمرسرار
3,911
3) Verbs V – verbs لعرفر
19,356
4) Adjectives ADJ – Adjective ةفرصر
1,961
50,363
3) Words that we will not cover yet (about 10% of the words in the Quran)
These words will either be covered in future lessons and sometimes they will also be covered in the Quran dictionary. For example the word ‘Indeed’ to the right was covered in the Quran dictionary which appears in the Quran around 2,000 times:
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Chapter (114) sūrat l-nās (Mankind)
Translation Arabic word Syntax and morphology
(114:1:1)
qul
Say,
V – 2nd person masculine singular imperative verb
فعلرأمر
(114:1:2)
aʿūdhu
"I seek
refuge
V – 1st person singular imperfect verb
فعلرمضارع
(114:1:3)
birabbi
in (the)
Lord
P – prefixed preposition bi
N – genitive masculine noun
جاررومجرور
(114:1:4)
l-nāsi
(of)
mankind,
N – genitive masculine plural noun
اسمرمجرور
(114:2:1)
maliki
(The) King
N – genitive masculine singular noun → King
اسمرمجرور
(114:2:2)
l-nāsi
(of)
mankind,
N – genitive masculine plural noun
اسمرمجرور
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(114:3:1)
ilāhi
(The) God
N – genitive masculine singular noun
اسمرمجرور
(114:3:2)
l-nāsi
(of)
mankind,
N – genitive masculine plural noun
اسمرمجرور
(114:4:1)
min
From
P – preposition
حرفرجر
(114:4:2)
sharri
(the) evil
N – genitive masculine singular noun
اسمرمجرور
(114:4:3)
l-waswāsi
(of) the
whisperer,
N – genitive masculine singular noun
اسمرمجرور
(114:4:4)
l-khanāsi
the one
who
withdraws,
ADJ – genitive masculine singular adjective
صفةرمجرورة
(114:5:1)
alladhī
The one
who
REL – masculine singular relative pronoun
اسمرموصول
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(114:5:2)
yuwaswisu
whispers
V – 3rd person masculine singular imperfect verb
فعلرمضارع
(114:5:3)
fī
in
P – preposition
حرفرجر
(114:5:4)
ṣudūri
(the)
breasts
N – genitive masculine plural noun
اسمرمجرور
(114:5:5)
l-nāsi
(of)
mankind,
N – genitive masculine plural noun
اسمرمجرور
(114:6:1)
mina
From
P – preposition
حرفرجر
(114:6:2)
l-jinati
the jinn
N – genitive feminine noun → Jinn
اسمرمجرور
(114:6:3)
wal-nāsi
and men.
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and)
N – genitive masculine plural noun
رالواورعاطفة اسمرمجرور
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What are prefixes and suffixes?
Word: Accept Prefix: Un Suffix: Able This becomes:
Unacceptable Prefix in Arabic:
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