hi, i know that this is a turkish forum , but i was wondering if any of you speak any arabic and could help me out with what this means:

eh a5barak ya gamel

thank you very much

Learning arabic is my ultimate dream!!
I wish I could help you though!
try to contact the user "CANLI" she is egyptian and always ready to help.

I can help with Arabic if you'd like ..just pm me.

The sentence you asked about basically means "what's up, beautiful?" (like ne haber), and it is in the Egyptian dialect.

Happy to help anytime,ama OS beats me to it,and translate it well enough.

thank you guys all so much. i'm in my first year of learning arabic- what a beautiful language!!! i just have problems with egyptian colloquial, since i'm learning modern standard. thanks again you guys!!!

Yeah, there is a modern standard arabic, which is pretty much the Quran arabic. I'd say it is the arabic spoken actually in the arabian peninsula.

The colloquial forms of arabic are different, being the ones closer to the arabian peninsula the "purest" ones (such us the iraqi or the shami), and he most "rotten" ones are the magrebi and maltese. The egyptian diallect is the most popular one, because it is used in music and movies.

akdeniz1 explained it correctly


Modern Standard Arabic is the Arabic of the Quran, which can also be called Classical Arabic (formal). It is used in news, papers, books, signs, etc...but people don't speak it with each other, they speak their own respective dialects. In order to read or write Arabic, you use Modern Standard/Classical.

Yes, the vocabulary used is simpler, but the grammar structures, most of the vocabulary and pronounciation is what you call formal arabic , but it's name for western students is Modern Standard Arabic, Classic Arabic and fus7a. M.S.A. would be the arabic you hear when you watch al-jazeera.

Students here usually start learning M.S.A. and once they are finished with it (if they ever finish, because to me it's a never-ending language), then they start learning a dialect of their choice. In Spain moroccan arabic is quite popular, and many people interested in arabic are struggling to learn it, also, it is easier to get a job as a translator speaking moroccan arabic since most of the arabs settled here are from al-magreb . Anyways MSA is a must since the official papers are written in formal arabic.

Those were my two cents.

Yes, I am learning MSA since I am just a beginner. Once I "finish" I will most likely learn the Maghrebi (Morrocan) dialect, as it is used widely. I am already starting to learn the Algerian dialect which is a lot different than most other dialects, since my boyfriend is from Algeria. If any of you have learned arabic, what was your experience with it? I thought the hardest part was learning how say and spell all of the letters and different sounds. Many of them sound the same, for example the alif and the ta marbuuta... also the thaal and thaa.

Thanks for your help guys, I may have a few other questions, as I am working on my graduation project in Arabic for this semester.

~Miranda~

To me it was the script, I never got to read/write properly, anyways i never really tried to learn it. I prefer spoken arabic which, to me, was easy, thought it was hard sometimes to learn the vocabulary. It¡s a very beautiful language, i hope i can continue learning it someday.

You are right about the taa marbuuta, alif, thaal and thaa. It has become a lot easier for me to distinguish these sounds from each other. But I just remember how incredibly hard the dictation exercises we did were. Overall I love the language very much, but the only problem is the rather big differences between Modern Standard and the different colloquials. It becomes hard for me to understand native speakers, especially those who speak a million miles an hour