Arabic Language Questions and Answers for the School Radio Show

The Arabic language is at the very heart of the life of Islamic peoples, Arab and non-Arab alike. Here on your site (Belaraby Apps) we try to grow our little ones’ vocabulary and their knowledge of Arabic through a question-and-answer format. These Arabic language questions and answers for the school radio show can be used by Arabic teachers in the morning radio program, in “A Few Minutes with Arabic” segments, and as assorted facts about the Arabic language.

Arabic Language Questions and Answers for the School Radio Show (with Pictures)

A varied set of questions, ranging in difficulty from easy and quick, perfect for putting together a school radio program. You can use them as a competition idea presented by the school’s Arabic Language Club, as interactive questions for students during the morning broadcast, or as fun facts about Arabic. As part of the celebrations for World Arabic Language Day, this is a fresh and lovely idea for marking Arabic Language Day.

Arabic Language Questions and Answers for the School Radio Show

Question: To which language family does Arabic belong?

• Answer: The Semitic languages.

Question: What is the plural of the word أخطبوط (ukhtubut — octopus)?

• Answer: أخاطب (akhatib) and أخاطيب (akhatib).

Question: To what did the Arabs give the name الفرصاد (al-firsad)?

• Answer: The mulberry (التوت — al-tut).

Question: In which revealed scripture was Arabic sent down?

• Answer: The Holy Quran.

Question: Who was the most eloquent of the Arabs?

• Answer: The noble Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.

Question: Who wrote the famous poem “Al-Burda” (The Mantle)?

• Answer: Kaab ibn Zuhayr.

Question: How many names does the lion have in the Arabic language?

• Answer: One thousand five hundred names.

Question: What is the rabbit’s home called in Arabic?

• Answer: جُحر (juhr — a burrow).

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Easy Arabic Language Questions and Answers

In this easy set of Arabic language questions and answers, we offer a collection of questions covering cultural facts about Arabic, its writers and poets, plus a few questions on grammar and vocabulary.

Question: Who founded the science of Arabic prosody (علم العروض — ilm al-arud)?

• Answer: Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi.

Question: Who was Sibawayh?

• Answer: He was Amr ibn Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Harithi, known by the kunya Abu Bishr and nicknamed Sibawayh: the foremost of the grammarians and author of the first book on Arabic grammar.

Question: What is المُح (al-muh) and what is الأُح (al-uh)?

• Answer: Al-muh is the egg white, while al-uh is the egg yolk.

Question: What does the word صه (sah) mean?

• Answer: “Be quiet / Hush.”

Question: Which is correct — to say إكرام الضيف (ikram al-dayf, with a hamzat qat) or اكرام الضيف (with a hamzat wasl) for “honoring the guest”?

• Answer: إكرام الضيف — because it is the verbal noun of a four-letter (rubai) hamzated verb, so it takes a hamzat qat.

Question: Which word has one hundred meanings in Arabic?

• Answer: عين (ayn) — which can mean eye, spring, spy, the essence of a thing, and much more.

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Arabic Grammar Questions and Answers

And here is our appointment with the maestro of Arabic, with grammar questions and answers. Come, let us test our knowledge!

Question: What is the name of the mark that indicates a doubled (geminated) letter in pronunciation?

• Answer: The shadda ( ّ ).

Question: Which pronoun reads the same from right to left and from left to right?

• Answer: نحن (nahnu — we).

Question: What are the parts of speech in Arabic?

• Answer: Words are divided into three categories: noun (اسم — ism), verb (فعل — fil), and particle (حرف — harf).

Question: How are nouns classified according to gender?

• Answer: Masculine (مذكر — mudhakkar) and feminine (مؤنث — muannath).

Question: What is the feminine form of the adjective عطشان (atshan — thirsty)?

• Answer: عطشى (atsha).

Question: Which short vowel mark indicates the accusative case (nasb)?

• Answer: The fatha ( َ ).

Question: What are the marks that govern the correct pronunciation of letters in Arabic, considered one of the language’s most distinctive features among the world’s languages?

• Answer: The diacritical marks (التشكيل — al-tashkil).

Question: There is a demonstrative pronoun that reads the same from left to right and from right to left. What is it?

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Cultural Trivia about Classical (Fusha) Arabic

General cultural questions about Classical Arabic. Come, let us enrich our own knowledge and our children’s knowledge of the ancient and noble Arabic language, the “Language of the Daad.”

Question: What is the oldest script in the Arabic language?

• Answer: The Kufic script (الخط الكوفي — al-khatt al-kufi).

Question: Who is the poet who wrote the poem “Nahj al-Burda”?

• Answer: Ahmad Shawqi.

Question: What is the five-letter adjective that, if you remove its first two letters, becomes an adverb of place?

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Clever Grammar Questions

In these clever grammar questions, we aim to present grammar rules as simple, easy-to-grasp facts.

Question: What is the name of the first dictionary in the Arabic language, and who compiled it?

• Answer: “Kitab al-Ayn,” the first Arabic dictionary, compiled by al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi during the reign of Harun al-Rashid.

Question: How many meanings does the particle “لا” (la) have, and what are they?

• Answer: It has six uses, though the original meaning is one — negation.

1- “لا” can be a negating particle, of two types: a) Negation of the category (لا النافية للجنس), which works like “إنَّ” (inna): it puts the noun in the accusative and the predicate in the nominative; e.g., لا صاحبَ مصنعٍ مهملٌ (“No factory owner is negligent”). b) Negation working like “ليس” (laysa): it puts the noun in the nominative and the predicate in the accusative; e.g., لا طالبُ مهملًا (“No student is negligent”). 2- “لا” can be a prohibitive particle (لا الناهية) that puts the following present-tense verb in the jussive; e.g., لا تهملْ ولا تُقصِّرْ (“Do not neglect and do not fall short”). 3- “لا” can express supplication; e.g., لا فُضَّ فوك (“May your mouth never be scattered” — i.e., “May you always speak well”). 4- “لا” can mean “without” (دون); e.g., لمتني بلا ذنب (“You blamed me without fault”), رجعت بلا شيء (“I came back with nothing”). 5- “لا” can be redundant (زائدة), as in لا أقسم بهذا البلد, where the meaning is “I swear by this land,” with “لا” being extra — and Allah knows best. 6- “لا” can be a coordinating conjunction; e.g., أكرمت أباك لا أخاك (“I honored your father, not your brother”).

Question: What is the difference between وَسَط (wasat) and وسْط (wast)?

• Answer: وَسَط is parsed according to its position in the sentence, whereas وسْط is parsed as an accusative adverb of place.

If the word is وَسَط (with a vowel on the seen), it is a fully declinable noun that can be nominative, accusative, or genitive: Nominative; e.g., هذا وَسَطُ الشيء (“This is the middle of the thing”) — here “wasat” is a nominative predicate marked with a damma. Accusative; e.g., ضربْتُ وسَطَه (“I struck its middle”) — here “wasatahu” is an accusative direct object marked with a fatha. Genitive; e.g., نظرت إلى وَسَطِ الحجرة (“I looked at the middle of the room”) — here “wasat” is genitive after the preposition إلى, marked with a kasra. But if the seen is unvowelled (وسْط), it functions as an adverb that must remain in the accusative as an adverb of place; e.g., رأيته وسْطَ الغرفة (“I saw him in the middle of the room”), حفرتُ وسْطَ الدار (“I dug in the middle of the house”), غرسْتُ وَسْطَ البستان نخلةً (“I planted a palm tree in the middle of the orchard”).

Question: Parse the phrase لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله (“There is no power and no strength except through Allah”).

• Answer: The parsing is as follows:

لا (la): negation of the category, working like إنَّ (inna). حول (hawl): its noun, built on the fatha in the position of the accusative — because the noun of “لا” of this type, when singular, is built on whatever it would normally be put in the accusative with. The predicate is omitted and understood to be “موجود” (existing), in the nominative with an apparent damma. و (wa): a coordinating conjunction built on the fatha, with no grammatical position. قوة (quwwa): coordinated with the noun of “لا,” most likely built on the fatha in the position of the accusative, just like it. إلا (illa): a particle of exception that here is cancelled (mulghat) in function. بالله (billah): the ba is a preposition built on the kasra, with no grammatical position; the noble name (Allah) is genitive after the ba, marked with an apparent kasra. ⇐ Read also: The Loveliest Cards about the Arabic Language — Beautiful Designs for World Arabic Language Day We have brought you these Arabic language questions and answers for the school radio show. Share with us in a comment how many questions you answered and how many facts you learned for the first time, in celebration of World Arabic Language Day. Enrich your linguistic and cultural store with our beautiful language. We hope, dear followers, that you will share your comments and suggestions — your opinion matters to us, and we always strive to offer everything useful and new. Don’t forget to follow the official Belaraby Apps page on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. We offer everything beneficial with all our love — so please keep us in your prayers.

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