What books are recommended for learning Arabic? I'm really only interested in learning to read the Qur'an so something directed toward that end is what I'm looking for.
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Resources for learning Arabic( in English)
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Does anyone know of a clickable Quran with a parsing tool?
I don't see a general Arabic thread that's been used recently, so I'll ask this question here:
In Surah 5.83, is this فَاكْتُبْنَا /fāktubnā/ the 'subordinating particle' -ف + the imperative 'ktub' + the 1st person pl. suffix? 'Consign thou us [among the witnesses]?'
I don't see a general Arabic thread that's been used recently, so I'll ask this question here:
In Surah 5.83, is this فَاكْتُبْنَا /fāktubnā/ the 'subordinating particle' -ف + the imperative 'ktub' + the 1st person pl. suffix? 'Consign thou us [among the witnesses]?'
Yes.
Personally I've asked my Arabic questions on the "random quotes on Arabic and Qur'an" thread, though I guess you could argue that there should be (a) specific thread(s) for questions.
No, I don't think we need another one, I just didn't want to "barge in" on yours, as they say.
But note:
There shouldn't be a macron on the first a. The alif is an elidable one, pronounced (as a short u) only when the word اكتب comes first in a sentence (or is uttered in isolation).
Lol, so you preferred to barge in on Notascooby's?
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You're more than welcome on my thread.
Scooby is a good guy, I'm sure, but he has less clout.
See, I knew I was missing something. Then what form is اكتب by itself? Or rather, why is the alif there?
Second person masculine singular imperative. It's written with that initial alif, but this basically never gets pronounced unless the word, on its own (i.e. without even any proclitic like فَ or anything), starts an utterance. So if I start talking to you with the word اكتب, I say uktub, but if anything precedes it I say ktub (although the spelling stays the same); e.g. fa-ktub.
It's epenthetic. There is a rule in classical Arabic that no utterance can start with two consonants in a row.* So some words like this one, that would otherwise start with two consonants, get an alif added at the start. That alif is elidable because, as soon as something precedes it, the two consonants can flow on from the last vowel of the previous word and the alif is no longer phonetically needed (though, in most cases, it still gets written).**
*And also that you can't have more than two consonants in a row anywhere.
**If the previous word ends in a consonant, so that you would get three consonants in a row, it's typically the previous word that gets an epenthetic vowel at the end, so the alif still remains silent.
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