Ya nerds, who wants to learn Arabic from the coolest language teacher ever?

Live your life while Time is snoozing,

don’t wait for the troubles Fate sends.

Life is a cup you drink:

it’s clear at the start

and dregs at the end.

—Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Dahhān

Bury me in a wine press

wrapped in a shroud of grape vine.

I hope for God’s sweet forgiveness—

tomorrow, after I drink up my wine.

This is attributed to Abū al-Hindī and it was found written on his grave

That Buck

By God tell that buck with the heavy buttocks

And a waist so small,

He is sweetest when he is ready,

And, when in ecstasy,

He is the most gorgeous of all.

He built a pigeon house,

And released a dove in the loft.

I wish I were one of his pigeons,

Or a falcon,

So he could do to me what he would love.

If he wore white linen,

The fabric would hurt or scratch him

Because he is so soft.

-Khadija bint al-Ma’mun

You nerds better read this great poem

Every lion with bared fangs incising

Cannot be deemed blithely smiling!

-Al-Mutanabi

On Being Proposed to by a Male Poet

I am a lioness: never will I let

my being be the break

on another’s journey.

But if that were my choice

I would not answer

to a dog, for to O!

how many lions

am I deaf.

-Aisha al-Qurtubiyya

I Walk My Walk

By God I am fit for the highest of peaks

And I walk my walk and boast in pride.

I enable my lover to have my cheeks.

And if someone craves a kiss, I provide.

-Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

It’s not a literal translation, a more literal translation is “but a lover is intoxicated/drunk for life”

Love good

The poet was a princess.

Arabic never had first person dual though.

Did you know that there is dual in Arabic? Dialects use it with nouns only, they don’t conjugate verbs in the dual - the subject being dual is enough :)

To turn a word into dual you just add the suffix ـان -an (transliterated as aan), e.g. كتاب kitaab book and كتابان kitaabaan 2 books.

Do you know any singular Arabic words you can turn into dual?

I just learned that French ‘très’ comes from Latin ‘trāns’

How?

How?

How did I say

goodbye to her

and live through it?

How

did my fingers

return to my hand

after bidding farewell?

Eyes of mine

crying

over her, cry

blood

heart of mine

burning

for her, break

into pieces.

—al-Ḥakam (caliph of Cordoba, 961–971)

I’ll send you something that should help a lot, the dots make a lot of sense actually.

Dialects are fun, if you approach one the right way. How much Arabic do you know?

appreciate English more

Studying Arabic makes you appreciate English way less, nonsensical stupid ass language.