What School Is Like
Learn the Arabic words for school: the teacher, the lesson, the book and more. Every word comes with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.
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School in Arabic 🏫
This topic is about **school**. Every word comes with its **Arabic script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Remember: Arabic is read from **right to left**.
Key words 📖
Learn these school words:
Match each Arabic word to its English meaning
- مدرسة (madrasa)
- معلم (muallim)
- طالب (talib)
- كتاب (kitab)
- school
- teacher
- student
- book
Which word?
Which Arabic word means 'a teacher'?
- معلم (muallim)
- طالب (talib)
- كتاب (kitab)
- فصل (fasl)
How the script works 📝
Two things about Arabic script. First, it is read from **right to left**. Second, the word for **the** is the prefix **al** (ال), joined to the front of a word. So مدرسة (madrasa, school) becomes المدرسة (al-madrasa, the school). Listen for that **al** sound at the start of many words.
School words
Select the TWO words connected with school.
- درس (dars)
- امتحان (imtihan)
- بحر (bahr)
- أب (ab)
Match each Arabic word to how it is said
- فصل
- قلم
- مادة
- واجب
- fasl
- qalam
- madda
- wajib
How do you say it?
The school مدرسة is said _____. The teacher معلم is said _____. A book كتاب is said _____. A lesson درس is said _____.
Order the school day
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Which word?
Which Arabic word means 'an exam'?
- امتحان (imtihan)
- قلم (qalam)
- مادة (madda)
- طالب (talib)
Complete the sentence
At school مدرسة (said _____), a student طالب (said _____) studies a lesson درس (said _____) with a teacher معلم (said _____).
A school day
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Use what you know
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Well done 🌟
You have met the key Arabic school words: مدرسة (madrasa, school), معلم (muallim, teacher), طالب (talib, student), درس (dars, lesson), كتاب (kitab, book) and امتحان (imtihan, exam). Keep practising the script and the transliteration together.