Most of the time you’ll probably only need to recognize the written Arabic word or phrase, but we’ve included audio so you can listen to the Arabic pronunciation. This way you’ll be able to find out if something is open or closed, or more importantly, on sale!
Resources for further reading:
How to pronounce signs in Arabic
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سيدات
sayedat
Ladies
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رجال
regal
Gentleman
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اسحب
Es7ab
Pull
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ادفع
Edfa3
Push
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مفتوح
Maftou7
Open
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مغلق
Mo3'lak
Closed
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ممنوع الركنة
Mamnou3 elrakna
No parking
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When you buy food in a supermarket and don’t intend to eat it straight away it might pay to check the ‘best before date’ to avoid nasty surprises…
تاريخ انتهاء الصلاحية
taree7' enteha2 el sala7eya
The best before date
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انتهاء الصلاحية
Enteha2 el sala7eya
Best before…
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Public smoking is legally banned in almost all states of India. So it might be helpful to learn what “Mamnou3 el tad7`een” means.
منطقة التدخين
Mante2et el tad7'een
The smoking area
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منطقة عدم التدخين
Mante2et 3adam el tad7'een
The non-smoking area
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ممنوع التدخين
Mamnou3 el tad7'een
No smoking!
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Sometimes you will see big bright colored signs in nearly every store window. There must be a sale on…
بيع الهدوم
Bey3 el hedom
Sale of clothes
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مخفض
Mo7'afad
Reduced
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لؤطة
Lo2ta
The bargain
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That’s it for this lesson. I hope you had fun!
For more lessons on Arabic vocabulary I recommend these!
- Break the ice by using vocab to do with sports in Arabic.
- This lesson covers the essential vocab for tools in Arabic.
- Need to know how to use a computer in Arabic?
!مع السلامة (Ma3a essalama!) Goodbye!
Amira Zaki: Rocket Arabic
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