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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: