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Level A1

Fruits & Vegetables

10 words · ~13 min

Grammar focus

Collective nouns in Arabic. Many fruits and vegetables use the collective noun form (e.g., 'tuffah' = apples in general), and you add 'ta marbuta' to get the singular: 'tuffaha' = one apple.

Lesson overview

Fruits & Vegetables is a level A1 lesson of 10 words: 10 nouns. Its words come from 6 Arabic roots, listed below with links to each root family.

Word list

ArabicMeaningTypeRoot
زُبْدَة
zubda
butternounز-ب-د
سُكَّر
sukkar
sugarnounس-ك-ر
مِلْح
milḥ
saltnounم-ل-ح
شُورْبَة
shūrba
soupnoun
سَلَطَة
salaṭa
saladnounس-ل-ط
فَاكِهَة
fākiha
fruitnounف-ك-ه
خُضَار
khuḍār
vegetablesnounخ-ض-ر
تُفَّاحَة
tuffāḥa
applenounت-ف-ح
مَوْز
mawz
banananounم-و-ز
بُرْتُقَال
burtuqāl
orangenounب-ر-ت-ق-ل

Themes these words belong to: Food (10), Basics (4), Dining (3), Fruit (3)

Sample word cards

زُبْدَة
zubda
butter
سُكَّر
sukkar
sugar
مِلْح
milḥ
salt

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