Signs in Arabic

You can avoid potential embarrassment and frustration if you understand these important signs in Arabic. The Rocket Arabic team wants to ensure you never walk into the wrong restroom, light up in a no-smoking area, or have your vehicle towed from a no-parking spot!

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

رجال

regal

Gentleman

اسحب

Es7ab

Pull

ادفع

Edfa3

Push

مفتوح

Maftou7

Open

مغلق

Mo3'lak

Closed

ممنوع الركنة

Mamnou3 elrakna

No parking

Sign for an escalator in arabic

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

انتهاء الصلاحية

Enteha2 el sala7eya

Best before…

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

منطقة عدم التدخين

Mante2et 3adam el tad7'een

The non-smoking area

ممنوع التدخين

Mamnou3 el tad7'een

No smoking!

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

مخفض

Mo7'afad

Reduced

لؤطة

Lo2ta

The bargain

That’s it for this lesson. I hope you had fun!

For more lessons on Arabic vocabulary I recommend these!

!مع السلامة (Ma3a essalama!) Goodbye!

Amira Zaki: Rocket Arabic

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