LESSON TRANSCRIPT

Arabic Alphabet Made Easy #10

Ayn and Ghayn

# 10
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Ahlan bikom, ana Carole! Welcome to Arabicpod101.com’s Abjadiyyah Made Easy!
The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn the Arabic alphabet: the Abjadiyyah!
In the last lesson, we learned two letters in the second group that look alike. In this
lesson we'll learn another set of similar letters from the second group. I know how
frustrating it is to learn letters that are hard to pronounce, but don’t worry! There aren’t
many left in that group! Ready to learn? Then let’s go!
The first letter we have in this lesson is ‫ع‬. It looks like a mirror image of the number 3,
but it dips beneath the line in the isolated and final forms. ‫ ع‬doesn’t sound like any
other letter in the Arabic or English alphabet. The sound comes from a very deep part
in the throat. Let’s practice it together. Repeat after me.
‫ع‬
Let’s write the isolated form:
.‫ع‬
Now let’s see the other forms of ‫ع‬: Take note how they all look a bit different.
Initial: ( ‫) ﻋَﺴَﻞ‬
Medial: ( ‫) ﺑَﻌﺪ‬
Final: ( ‫) ﺳَﺒﻊ‬
Let’s see how we write them!
‫ع‬
The next letter we’ll learn is ‫غ‬. This one is like the French R. It looks just like the ‫ع‬
except that it has a dot on top. Its sound is similar to the sound you make when you
gargle, a sound that comes from a point deep in the throat. Listen carefully:
‫غ‬
Let’s write it down in the isolated version:
‫غ‬
Now for the rest of the forms:
Initial: ( ‫) ﻏُﺒﺎر‬
Medial: ( ‫) ﺻَﻐﻴﺮ‬
and Final: ( ‫) رَﺳﻎ‬
Let’s write them down:
‫غ‬
Let’s learn some words using these 2 letters combined with some of the letters we
learned before.
Our first word is َ‫( ﻋَﺒ ﺮ‬abra) meaning “through”.
in the medial form ‫ ب‬is in the initial form with a fatha on top, then we have the ‫ع‬

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without vowelling, connected to ‫ ر‬in the final form with a fatha on top.
Let’s write it:
َ‫ﻋَﺒ ﺮ‬
The next word is ‫( ﻏَﺪر‬ghadr) which means “betrayal”. ‫ غ‬is in the initial form with a fatha
on top, connected to a medial ‫ د‬with no vowelling, with the ‫ ر‬in the final form.
Let’s write it down:
‫ﻏَﺪر‬
Now it's time for Carole’s Tips.
In this lesson, you learned the letter ‫ع‬. [word] is also the Arabic word for "eye". For
example, the expression ّ‫ اﻟﻌَﻴﻦ ﺑِﺎﻟﻌَﻴﻦ وَاﻟﺴِﻦّ ﺑِﺎﻟﺴِﻦ‬means "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth".
Great job in making it this far! Next time, we’ll be having another review lesson and
we’ll learn more vowelling signs. I’ll see you in the next Abjadiyyah Made Easy
Lesson. Take care! Salam!

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