Gulf Arabic Grammar
...G.2.1. Definite Article ...G.2.2 Personal Pronouns ...G.2.3 Possessive Pronouns ...G.2.4. Possessives with maal- ...G.2.5 Commands and Requests ...G.2.6 Broken Plural ...G.2.7 Plural -aat ...G.2.8 Plural -iin ...G.2.9 Plural -iyya ...G.3.1 The Construct State - iDaafat ...G.3.2 The Dual Form ...G.3.3 Adjectives ...G.3.4 Personal Pronoun Suffixes ...G.3.5 Prepositions ...G.3.6 To Have, 3ind- ...G.3.7 Past Tense I ...G.4.1 More on Adjectives ...G.4.2 Comparison Forms ...G.4.3 Numbers: Cardinals and Ordinals ...G.4.4 Telling the Time ...G.4.5 Question Words ...G.4.6 This, That, These (Demonstrative Pronouns) ...G.4.7 Past Tense II

Gulf Arabic Vocabulary - Expressions of Location

siida (also ra’san) – straight ahead

3ala shaari3 baghdaad – on Baghdad Avenue

3ala l-mayz – on the table

ta7t il-mayz – under the table

ta7t il-kursi – under the chair

jamb/yamm/yanb – beside, next to

jamb il-masjid – next to the mosque

gariib min il-jaami3 – close to, near the (Friday) mosque

Note: jaami3 (plural jawaami3) is a large mosque, where the Friday prayers take place. Masjid/masyid (plural masaajid/masayid) is a small one, more ubiquitous.

ba3iid 3an wasaT il-madiina – far from the city center

wara il-mabna – behind the building

giddaam baytna – in front of our house

giddaam il-maTaar – in front of the airport

mgaabil il-maS3ad – opposite the elevator

mgaabil il-bank – opposite the bank

fi, bi – at, in, inside

fi madiinat 3iisa – in Isa Town (in Bahrain) (3iisa is Jesus in Arabic)

bi-l-barr – in the desert, in the open

fi-l-Hoosh id-daaxili – in the inner yard

fi-l-Hoosh il-barraani – in the outer (front) yard

jabal (pl. jibaal) - mountain

fi-l-jabal – in the mountain