OK, I have lived in this fine country for years, I teach the youth of the country and am attempting to learn arabic but get so confused by this number/letter arabic business. What does it all mean??? Can anyone explain it to me??? I live in perpetual confusion and want to be cool too!!!!! (Sad I know but must attempt to be funky)
Please if you can give me a basic number = arabic letter guide I would forever be in your debt!!!
Shukran
Pinky
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I thought 3 means E, 7 means L.
Ugh, I'll wait and watch for other comments
Well, you have to see the arabic letters first..
The letter "ع" looks alot like the number 3... when u hear the name "Ali" in arabic u notice the "a" in the begining of the name is heavy.. so when i want to write the name Ali but with a phonetic indication to how the "a" is pronounced, i put the number 3 instead... so his name is 3li... The number 7 looks alot like the letter "ح"... the letter in the begining of the name Hamad, is also quite heavy, so we write it "7amad".. and so forth..
Lemme try to make it a simple table:
3 = A, as in Ali = 3li
'3 = Gh, as in Ghada (lunch in arabic)= '3ada (the apostrophe resembles the dot in the letter غ)
5 = Kh, as in Khlood= 5lood
6 = T, as in Talal= 6alal
7 = H, as in Hamad or Muhammed= 7amad or Mu7ammed
8 = Q (can't think of an example lol)
9 = S, as in Sabah = 9aba7 (our emir, for example?)
and i think that's about it lol... sorry for the long comment, but i hope it's useful :D
lol yep but theres others too.. wait lemme list them all:
2 - ء as in la2
3 - ع as in 3araby
5 - خ as in 5alood
6 - ط as in 6awla
'6 - ظ as in i cant think of a word
7 - ح as in 7amoud
8 - ق as in ba8ala
9 - ص as in 9abon (lol)
'9 - ض as in '9ary
I'm very wrong :( Thanks for those who commented exactly!
Thanks guys, my questions have been answered. Now I must commit them to memory and look cool in my attempts to use them.
You can find a table on Wikipedia that explains it all.
Click here :)
Wow, there are so many I didn't know of or use! Heck, I didn't even know there was a wiki page explaining the numbers and what they stand for!!
Sou, I have definitely worked out if you ever need and answer to an argument wikipedia is the place to go!!
I am surprised that it was first used in Egypt. I always thought it came from the Gulf lol.
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