Gulf Arabic Grammar
...G.2.1. Definite Article ...G.2.2 Personal Pronouns ...G.2.3 Possessive Pronouns ...G.2.4. Possessives with maal- ...G.2.5 Commands and Requests ...G.2.6 Broken Plural ...G.2.7 Plural -aat ...G.2.8 Plural -iin ...G.2.9 Plural -iyya ...G.3.1 The Construct State - iDaafat ...G.3.2 The Dual Form ...G.3.3 Adjectives ...G.3.4 Personal Pronoun Suffixes ...G.3.5 Prepositions ...G.3.6 To Have, 3ind- ...G.3.7 Past Tense I ...G.4.1 More on Adjectives ...G.4.2 Comparison Forms ...G.4.3 Numbers: Cardinals and Ordinals ...G.4.4 Telling the Time ...G.4.5 Question Words ...G.4.6 This, That, These (Demonstrative Pronouns) ...G.4.7 Past Tense II

Gulf Arabic Vocabulary - The Colours

The plural forms below are used for animate objects (people, etc.).
Use the feminine singular as plural for inanimate objects.

Masculine	Feminine	Plural	Translation
abyaD aswad axDar aSfar a7mar azrag	bayDa sooda xaDra Safra 7amra zarga	biiD sood xuDur Sufar 7umur zurug	white black green yellow red blue

Examples:
is-sayyaara il-7amra – the red car
is-sayyaaraat il-7amra – the red cars
(Note: mootir = sayyaara)

il-mootir il-aswad – the blue car
il-mawaatir is-sooda – the blue cars

il-ba7ar il-azrag – the blue sea
il-bi7aar iz-zarga – the blue seas

hadhaylayn rayaayiil sood. humma min soodaan – These men are black. They are from Sudan.

bunni, bunniya, bunniyiin – brown
rumaadi or resaassi – grey
burtugaali - orange
banafsaji - purple

faate7 - light
ghaamig - dark
axDar fate7 - light green
axDar ghaamig - dark green

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