مَزْرَعَة root: ز-ر-ع / noun / plural: مَزارِع / definition: farm, plantation In Medina, the week before last, we’d wandered off-path and through-open-gate into someone’s land. Unknowing trespassers, our eyes took in the palm trees, running water, greenery. And then—oops—the someone whose land it was walked over and asked how we got in. It wasContinue reading “A Word from the Saudi Dialect: بزران”
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An Eastern Dialect, a Return to the Peninsula
شَرقِيّ root: ش-ر-ق / nisba adjective / definition: eastern It’s funny. In the summer, I was preparing to spend my winter studying in Jeddah, but ended up cancelling my plans for one reason and the other. And now we’re nearing the end of December, I’m here in Jeddah—on completely different terms. I’m on a four-cityContinue reading “An Eastern Dialect, a Return to the Peninsula”
Certainties and Uncertainties
يَقين root: ي-ق-ن / noun / definition: certainty There’s a number of certainties in my life—one of them being that I must resume studying Arabic formally after this year-long hiatus that I decided to take.
The Arabic Pages 