Arabic Language Handbook

Abū adjectives adverbial affixes Arab world Arabia Arabic alphabet Arabic grammar Arabic literature Aramaic areas Armenian Baghdad Bedouin biliteral borrowed broken plurals C₂ century Classical Arabic clause Colloquial Arabic complement consonantal consonants context contrast derived verbs developed diglossia dual Egypt Egyptian Egyptian Arabic English especially feminine ending final short vowels form of Arabic gender and number grammatical groups imperf imperfect indicate inflection interdentals Iraq Islam kataba koine letter linguistic literary loanwords long vowel lwaladu masculine māta modern Arabic Muḥammad Muslim nomadic dialects North Africa nunation participles particles perfect Persian person masc phonemes phonology phrase poetic poetry poets pre-Islamic prefix prestige dialect primary verbs prose Proto-Semitic quadriliteral Qur'ān relative pronoun script sedentary dialects Semitic languages semivowel sentence simplified sing singular speakers spoken suffixes syllable Syrian tended tion tive tradition translated triliteral types verbal nouns verbs vocabulary vowel patterns Western words writing written