Arabic Vocabulary

Vocabulary in Arabic is vast. No one knows for sure how many words there are in the language, as it is a living body of words and dialects that is constantly changing. The best estimates coming from Sakhr’s statistics is that Arabic has around 10,000 roots and 200,000 distinct words. Even if we could measure the number of words, it wouldn’t help you much day to day. For a solid foundation in the language, a smaller set of high-frequency words will do the trick. Here are high quality vocabulary lists grouped by category.

Adjectives

Animals   |   Animals

Around the house

Basic verbs   |   Basics

Basic Phrases

Body   |   Body

Buildings

City & transportation

Clothes   |   Clothes

Colors   |   Colors

Countries

Crime & punishment

Directions   |   Directions

Eating

Education

Emotions & personality traits

English Words with Arabic Origin

Food   |   Food

Fruits

Geography

Government & politics

Human body

Islamic Expressions

Mankind & kinship

Media & the arts

Medicine

Meeting People

Nature & weather

Numbers   |   Numbers   |   Numbers

Occupations & School

Phrases

Places & Sport

Problems

Pronouns

Questions

Religion

Restaurant

Shopping   |   Shopping

Sports & hobbies

Technology

Things

Time   |   Time   |   Time   |   Time

Transportation

Travel   |   Travel

Verbs   |   Verbs

War

Weather   |   Weather

Work & money

 

 

 

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