If you are planning to take a trip to the Middle-East in the near future, you may want to keep some of the phrases handy. While you take on the dream trip to the foreign lands you have to be somewhat familiar with the foreign language. You should take into the consideration of learning the useful Arabic Phrases that will help you out
A few of the most common Arabic phrases to keep in mind
You may come across a huge list when you google it. Thus, we came up with the most common Arabic Phrases that are the most essential of them all:
- Hello and Goodbye: Marhabaan (hello), you can also say ‘halla’ for the jargon of hello and ma’a as-salamah (goodbye)
- Standard Greetings: when you meet you greet with as-salam-alaykum, with the response of wa’alay-kum-as-salam
- Excuse Me or sorry: afwan is generally used to get through the crowd.
- Please and thank you: fadlak and fadlik are used for please to men and women respectively. Shukran lak for thank you
- How much does it cost: you are going to ask this frequently so, kam yukalif is your phrase here
- Yes and no: Na’am and la are used to assert or negate respectively.
- I don’t know: LaaAref is used for saying someone you don’t know something. You can combine it to say sorry first and then the phrase.
- Do you speak english: halTaTaKalamalanglizia can be said if you want to ask them.
- Help: musaeada can be said in the simplest terms to ask for help.
- No Problem: Mafi Mushkila is used
- How are you?: kay fah-lak for men and kay fah-lik for women.
- No thanks: La Shukran is used generally to deny something politely.
These are few of the essential phrases that you want to keep ready all the time. You cannot just learn them all. So, the best way is to jot them down on a sheet of paper and keep that handy.
Though you will have to keep the greetings and the most frequent ones in your mind because you have to use it once in a while.
All of these pretty much sums up those which you are going to need when you visit Dubai for the first time. And you can interact on a basic level with these basic Arabic phrases.
Here are some of the phrases that you can also consider for the visit, though they are not that important to start with:
- Embassy: Saffara for you want get your things right
- Entry/Exit: Dukhool/Khurooj for the airports entry and exit
- Money: fallous is used, and you can combine it with other phrases to ask something
- Pharmacy: sayidalaya you need keep this one handy, though you will be ready with the medicines that you need on the go, but who knows
- What does that mean: yanni eh? This one can be handy as well
- My friend: Habibi/Habibti is used for my friend depending on male or female respectively
- Done: Khallas it is used for enough or done
Well then, this pretty much sums up the phrases that you will need the most and those that you may require in the journey. These are some of the basic Arabic Phrases that you may want to suit yourself with. But keep all of these handy whatsoever. You never know which one you require at the time.
