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Gulf Arabic
Pronunciation

Gulf Arabic
Vocabulary

...V.2.1 Greetings
...V.2.2 Short Descriptive Phrases

...V.3.1 At the Airport
...V.3.2 Asking for Directions
...V.3.3 Expressions of Location
...V.3.4 Professions
...V.3.5 Nationalities

...V.4.1 How Much Does it Cost?
...V.4.2 At the Market
...V.4.3 The Days of the Week
...V.4.4 The Months
...V.4.5 The Colours

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 - Professions

learn arabic Kuwait Inta mutarjim? - Are you a translator/interpreter?

La, ana taajir. - No, I am a merchant/trader.

Inti sikritayra? - Are you (female) a secretary?

La, ana mudarrisa. Adarris il-lughat il-ingliziyya fii jaami3at Zaayed. - No, I am a teacher. I teach the English language at Zayed University.

Shinhu shughlak ya3ni? - What is your job? (ya3ni as used here implies a high degree of informality)

Shugli … ya3ni …taSlii7 sayyaraat xarbaana. - Well, my job is repairing broker cars. (ya3ni as used here is a time-filler)

Aa, idhan inta mikaniiki. - Ah, so you're a mechanic.

Inta waysh tishtaghil? - What do you work? (lit. You what work?)

Ashtaghil draywil fi sharikat taSdiir an-nafT. - I work as a driver at the petroleum exporting company. (lit. I work driver in company export the petroleum.)

tindayl (plural: -iyya or tinaadiil) – foreman, supervisor

kuuli (plural: -iyya) – coolie (hired hand)

yishtaghil tindayl 7agg il-kuuliyya – He works (as) a foreman of (for) the coolies.

mudarris (plural: -iin) – teacher

ustaadh (pl.: asaatidha) – professor

mu7assin (plural: -iin) – barber

muwaDHDHaf (-iin) – employee

muhandis (-iin) – engineer

kaatib (pl. kuttaab) – clerk

farraash (pl. farariish) – cleaner

taajir (tujjaar) - merchant

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