List of Abbreviations

Abbreviations used in these lectures

FOR EXAMPLE
Abbr. Meaning
mg masculine gender
fg feminine gender
br. pl broken plural
sg singular
dl dual

This booklet is prepared to give at least some help to understand Quran. Please keep the following points in mind while studying these lectures:

1. When there are more than one distinctly different meanings of a word, a semicolon is placed between the two meanings. For similar meanings, a comma is placed between the meanings. For example: (Eye; Spring = عَیْن) and (Above, Up = عَلَی).

2. At the bottom left of the page, total is provided for the number of times the words of that page have occured in the Quran. The bottom right shows the percent of the total Quranic words that you have learnt so far, if you have memorized the meanings the words till that page.

3. In almost every case, the words are arranged alphabetically to make the search easy.

4. The word forms related to dual number and feminine gender are used sparingly in the Holy Quran. Therefore, these forms may be given less emphasis in the beginning stages.

5. Just like in any language, some verbs and nouns of action are always followed by a preposition.
However, in some cases, a change in preposition may change the meanings too, for example, get; get in; get at; get by, get off, get on, etc. A list of some important verbs with changing prepositions is provided on lecture # 16.


If you master these word lists, you need to know only 2 out of 9 in each line of the Holy Quran (based on statistical average using a typical Quranic Mushaf containing 600 pages, with each page having 15 lines).
The words given in these lectures (11 - 16) account for 82.6% (64,282) of the total number of words (approx. 77,800) of the Holy Quran. The words listed in the first six pages occur very frequently. Some of them occur in combination with each other. They constitute a whopping 41.5% (32,263) of the total number of words.


NO, NO!!!

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
لَا إِلَٰهَ (There is) no god إِلَّا ٱللَّٰه except Allah
كَلَّا Never, certainly not لَنْ not (for future)
لَمْ not (for past) مَا not
لَیْسَ (لَیْسَتْ) not (fg) بَلَیْ yes, indeed
غَیْرَ not, other than دُوْنِ besides; less than
إِلَّا except; unless; if not نَعَمْ yes

QUESTIONS ?

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
مَا what?, that which مَنْ who?, the one who
مَتَی when?, the time when أَیْنَ where?
کَیْفَ how? کَمْ how many?
أَيُّ which? أَنَّی where from?, why?
أَ، ھَلْ Is? Am? Are? Do? Have مَاذَا what?
لَمِ، لِمَاذَا why? لَوْلَا if not; why not

WHERE ?

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
فَوْقَ above, up تَحْتَ under
بَیْنَ أَیْدَيْ، بَیْنَ یَدَيْ infront of خَلْفَ back, after
أَمَامْ infront of وَرَاء behind
يَمِينْ (pl أَيْمَانْ) right; oath شِمَالْ (pl شَمَائِلْ) left
بَيْنَ between حَوْلَ around
حَيْثُ wherever أَيْنَمَا wherever

MISCELLANEOUS ?

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
ذُو، ذَا، ذِي endowed with; owner of (mg) ذَاتْ endowed with; owner of (fg)
أُوْلُواْ، أُوْلِي people of; owners of أَھْل people of; relative
آلْ family, relatives, people أَلَا lo!; do not?, will not?
نِعْمَ what an excellent... بِئْسَ what an evil...
بِئْسَمَا evil is that which مِثْلِ something similar
مَثَلْ (أَمْثَالْ) similitude مِمَّنْ (مِنْ + مَنْ) than the one who; from those who

WHEN ?

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
قَبْلَ before بَعْدَ after
حِینْ time, period; at the time of إِذْ when (for past)
إِذَا when (for future) ثُمَّ then
فَ then, thus, therefore بَلْ nay, -- rather, but, however
عِنْدَ، لَدَیْ، لَدُنْ near, with إِنْ ... إِلَّ nothing --- but
مَا ... إِلَّا nothing --- but أَلَّا (أَنْ + لَا) that...not; so as not to

PREPOSITIONS

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
بَ with, in, from,... عَنْ about
فِي in كَ as, like
لِ، لَ for مِنْ from
إِلَى towards تَ by (of oath)
حَتَّی until عَلَی on
مَعَ with وَ and; by (of oath)

PREPOSITIONS + مَا

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
بِمَا with what, because عَمَّا about what
فِیمَا in what کَمَا as, just as
لَمَا for what; for that which مِمَّا out of what
أَمَّا as to, as for إِمَّا if; either/or
أَنَّمَا that إِنَّمَا verily; is but
کَأَنَّمَا as if کُلَّمَا whenever

INNA

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
إِنَّ verily, truly أَنَّ that
کَأَنَّ as if لَٰکِنَّ (لٰکِنْ) but, however
لَعَلَّ perhaps, may be أَنْ that
إِنْ if إِیَّا alone
عَسَیَ possibly لَمَّا when
لَوْ if یَا، یَاأَیُّھَا O!

َPREFIX FOR VERB

FOR EXAMPLE
Verbs Meaning Verbs Meaning
قَدْ (+ فعل) has (with مَاضِی); surely (with مُضارع) سَ (+ فعل) will (for near future)
سَوْفَ (+ فعل) will (for future) لَ+ فعل + نَّ will surely
لَقَدْ (+ فعل) indeed لَ indeed, surely
لِ، لْ (أَمْر) let sb do (imperative) الْ the
أَمْ or? أَوْ or
بَعْضَ some of کُلَّ everyone; all

Total words from this page : 32263


Total Percentage of words learnt uptill now : 41.5%


Congragulations! You have completed your nineth day task. Revise thoroughly what we have taught you above. Practice all Pronouns as much as you can as they are used very much in the Quran.



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