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Lesson 5
2. the Gender

Arabic s are of two types in regards to gender:
1.

(Mudhak-kar) masculine.
2.

(Muan-nath) feminine.

All Arabic s are

masculine unless we specifically know

it is

feminine.
There are two types of

feminine.
1.

(Muan-nath Haqiqii) real feminine.

If you translate these nouns to any language they remain
feminine.
Examples:

real feminine

sister

daughter

mother

2.

(Muan-nath Ghair Haqiqii) not real feminine.

is two types.
1.

- feminine with signs.

2.

- feminine as heard from the Arabs.

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1.

- feminine with signs.

There are three signs of feminine.
1. Taa marbuta () at the end of a .
Examples:

- feminine with signs

stone

sign

gerden

cow

room

watch/time
Adjective nouns can be made in to feminine by adding
taa marbuta () at the end.
Note: The letter before taa marbuta () will have a Fatha.
Examples:

Adjective noun

female muslim

muslim

female pious

pious

female student

student

big (fm)

big

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small (fm)

small

long (fm)

long

short (fm)

short

heavy (fm)

heavy

light (fm)

light
2. Alif maqsurah (

it is also written like this

) at the end
of a .
Examples:

- feminine with signs

beautiful lady

Small (f)

Big (f)
3. Alif mamdudah () at the end of a .
Examples:

- feminine with signs

black

yellow

desert



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2.

- feminine as heard from the Arabs.

There are some categories, if any is from these categories they
will be

- feminine as heard from the Arabs.

Category 1: Names of winds.
Examples:

- feminine as heard from the Arabs

wind

cold wind

wind
Category 2: Names of wines.
Examples:

- feminine as heard from the Arabs

wine

wine
Category 3: Names of fire.
Examples:

- feminine as heard from the Arabs

hell fire

hell fire

fire



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Category 4: parts of the body in pairs.
Examples:

- feminine as heard from the Arabs

ear

eye

hand

elbow

foot

leg

Category 5: names of countries.
Examples:

- feminine as heard from the Arabs

Roman

Syria

Egypt

The exception to this rule are six Arab countries. These are:

Iraq

Jordan

Morocco

Kuwait

Lebanon

Sudan



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Besides the above-mentioned nouns, there are other nouns
which are used as feminine by the Arabs.
Some of them are:

- feminine as heard from the Arabs

sun

earth

sky

glass

house

battle

market

dream

soul

All broken plurals (none-intelligent) are singular feminine.
(We will learn broken plurals in the next lesson).
Examples:

- feminine as heard from the Arabs

doors

pens

books

houses

faces

hearts