Signs in Arabic
You can avoid potential embarrassment and frustration if you understand these important signs in Arabic. The Rocket Arabic team wants to ensure you never walk into the wrong restroom, light up in a no-smoking area, or have your vehicle towed from a no-parking spot!
Most of the time you’ll probably only need to recognize the written Arabic word or phrase, but we’ve included audio so you can listen to the Arabic pronunciation. This way you’ll be able to find out if something is open or closed, or more importantly, on sale!
Resources for further reading:
How to pronounce signs in Arabic
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سيدات
sayedat
Ladies
رجال
regal
Gentleman
اسحب
Es7ab
Pull
ادفع
Edfa3
Push
مفتوح
Maftou7
Open
مغلق
Mo3'lak
Closed
ممنوع الركنة
Mamnou3 elrakna
No parking
When you buy food in a supermarket and don’t intend to eat it straight away it might pay to check the ‘best before date’ to avoid nasty surprises…
تاريخ انتهاء الصلاحية
taree7' enteha2 el sala7eya
The best before date
انتهاء الصلاحية
Enteha2 el sala7eya
Best before…
Public smoking is legally banned in almost all states of India. So it might be helpful to learn what “Mamnou3 el tad7`een” means.
منطقة التدخين
Mante2et el tad7'een
The smoking area
منطقة عدم التدخين
Mante2et 3adam el tad7'een
The non-smoking area
ممنوع التدخين
Mamnou3 el tad7'een
No smoking!
Sometimes you will see big bright colored signs in nearly every store window. There must be a sale on…
بيع الهدوم
Bey3 el hedom
Sale of clothes
مخفض
Mo7'afad
Reduced
لؤطة
Lo2ta
The bargain
That’s it for this lesson. I hope you had fun!
For more lessons on Arabic vocabulary I recommend these!
- Break the ice by using vocab to do with sports in Arabic.
- This lesson covers the essential vocab for tools in Arabic.
- Need to know how to use a computer in Arabic?
!مع السلامة (Ma3a essalama!) Goodbye!
Amira Zaki: Rocket Arabic
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