Colors

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Also Appears In: Egyptian Arabic Words of the Week with Peryhan for Beginners Throwback Thursday

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Lesson Transcript

Hi everyone, my name is Prihan and this is Egyptian Arabic weekly words. Today’s topic is colors, الألوان (al'alwan) So let’s get started.

أحم ر

[ʾaḥmar] Red

الفراولة لونها أحمر.

[elfarāwlah lūnhā ʾaḥmar.]

Strawberries are red, it’s red.

إسو د

[ʾeswed] Black

[ʾeswed] or in the dialect

[ʾeswed] that is black

الإسود لون أنيق.

[elʾeswed lūn ʾanīq.]

Black is an elegant color

أصف ر

[ʾṣfar, ʾaṣfar] yellow

الموز لونه أصفر.

[elmūz lūnuh ʾaṣfar.]

Bananas are yellow

بن ي

[bunnī] brown

شعري لونه بني.

[šaʿrī lūnuh bunnī.] My hair is brown

أزر ق

[ʾazraʾ] blue.

In the dialect, it’s [ʾazraʾ]

which is very easy to pronounce than

السما و المحيطات لونهم أزرق.

[elsamā wa el-muḥīṭāt lūnhum ʾzraʾ.]

The sky and the oceans are blue.

That’s it for today. Please comment below about your favorite color and try to make a sentence with it and I will see you next time bye bye.