العَوْم root: ع-و-م / form I verbal noun / definition: floating I returned to London yesterday with my glasses broken, heart full, and mind a mess. Those four weeks in Majorca, in my childhood home and bedroom with the sea-blue curtains I’ve had for the past twenty years, felt like too little time to honourContinue reading “Four Weeks, and Three Arabic Phrases”
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Miscellaneous Advanced Phrases for Arabic Essays
مُتَفَرِّقات root:ف-ر-ق / plural noun / definition: miscellaneous things For the first time since my undergraduate degree and during this break from teaching, I’m really experiencing the full joy of studying again. And that document of notes I mentioned in Night-time Ramblings of an Arabic PhD Student? Well, it’s now got over 20 thousand words andContinue reading “Miscellaneous Advanced Phrases for Arabic Essays”
Some Arabic Proverbs from the Hans Wehr Dictionary
مَثَل root: م-ث-ل / noun / plural: أَمْثال / definition: proverb I almost completed writing an entirely different post to publish today, but it just didn’t feel like the right day to post it. That happens sometimes when I write posts, and I then store them in my drafts to publish another week, or IContinue reading “Some Arabic Proverbs from the Hans Wehr Dictionary”
The Arabic Pages 