FuSHa to Shami Series #4: Nouns

Editor’s Note & Disclaimer: The core content and linguistic structure of this lesson were originally authored by Chris Hitchcock for the Team Maha website. This post is part of an effort to preserve, organize, and share these invaluable resources for Arabic learners worldwide. In Shami (and spoken Arabic dialects more generally), nouns function very similarly to FuSHa, but with several important colloquial adaptations. In this lesson, we will examine noun gender, the pronunciation rules of the feminine ending (taa marbuuTa), how the dual is used in daily speech, sound and broken plurals, and collective nouns.