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• One Arabic word can be a whole English sentence. فَأَسْقَيْنَاكُمُوهُ (Qur'an 15:22) = "So We made you drink it." • English has one "you." Arabic has five, depending on whether you're talking to a man, a woman, two people, a group of men, or a group of women. • Arabic has a form just for two. "Two books" is one word: kitābān. • Most Arabic words grow from a three-letter root. ك ت ب gives you kitāb (book), kātib (writer), maktab (office) and maktabah (library). • It goes both ways. Algebra, alcohol, coffee, sugar and cotton all came into English through Arabic. #learnarabic ter from their face and manner before they say a word. 📖 إِيثَار (īthār) Putting someone else before yourself, even when you need it too. 📖 إِحْسَان (iḥsān) Doing something with excellence, as though you can see God and He sees you. 📖 ثَكْلَى (thaklā) A mother who has lost her child. English has widow and orphan. It has no word for her. One word in Arabic. A sentence in English. #learnarabic #arabiclanguage #arabicwords #modernstandardarabic