Ya nerds, who wants to learn Arabic from the coolest language teacher ever?

Live your life while Time is snoozing,

don’t wait for the troubles Fate sends.

Life is a cup you drink:

it’s clear at the start

and dregs at the end.

—Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Dahhān

Bury me in a wine press

wrapped in a shroud of grape vine.

I hope for God’s sweet forgiveness—

tomorrow, after I drink up my wine.

This is attributed to Abū al-Hindī and it was found written on his grave

That Buck

By God tell that buck with the heavy buttocks

And a waist so small,

He is sweetest when he is ready,

And, when in ecstasy,

He is the most gorgeous of all.

He built a pigeon house,

And released a dove in the loft.

I wish I were one of his pigeons,

Or a falcon,

So he could do to me what he would love.

If he wore white linen,

The fabric would hurt or scratch him

Because he is so soft.

-Khadija bint al-Ma’mun

The utterances of some people are pearls memorized nigh;

Others’ are like pebbles hurled, and never in mind’s eye!

-Abul-‘Ala Al-Ma’ari

Do not drink fortune unmixed:

For unmixed drinks lead to demise!

Mix half with wine, half with water:

Then it will be all together

More scrumptious and for health better!

-De’bel Alkhozaei, Abbasid poet

You nerds better read this great poem

Every lion with bared fangs incising

Cannot be deemed blithely smiling!

-Al-Mutanabi

On Being Proposed to by a Male Poet

I am a lioness: never will I let

my being be the break

on another’s journey.

But if that were my choice

I would not answer

to a dog, for to O!

how many lions

am I deaf.

-Aisha al-Qurtubiyya

I Walk My Walk

By God I am fit for the highest of peaks

And I walk my walk and boast in pride.

I enable my lover to have my cheeks.

And if someone craves a kiss, I provide.

-Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

It’s not a literal translation, a more literal translation is “but a lover is intoxicated/drunk for life”

Love good

The poet was a princess.

Arabic never had first person dual though.

Did you know that there is dual in Arabic? Dialects use it with nouns only, they don’t conjugate verbs in the dual - the subject being dual is enough :)

To turn a word into dual you just add the suffix ـان -an (transliterated as aan), e.g. كتاب kitaab book and كتابان kitaabaan 2 books.

Do you know any singular Arabic words you can turn into dual?

I just learned that French ‘très’ comes from Latin ‘trāns’

Watch the video smdh.

9 Arabic recipes!

Now make fun of Western “cuisines”, that is all the thanks I need