Arabic Words Illustrated Based On Their Literal Meaning

Qitt and Cat are similar in prononciation and meaning 😛😛

These are so lovely! As a beginning Arabic student, I appreciate these a lot!

graceful cat word

Vision

Qitt is a male cat; Qittah is a female cat. Qitt in vernacular arabic also means 'pussy'! :)

Doesn't ث sounds more like 'sa' rather than 'tha' ته???? Shouldn't word should sound like 'saghlab'???? ( I am one of those unfortunate urdu speaking people who can kind of read arabic without the understanding of words so forgive me for asking if this is a silly question)

beautiful

I think hout means fish.

Man, you write "H" in the beginning of a word and the Brits will just ignore it. Better make it a "Kh" :P

I am loving these! Thank you!!

Interesting

you do have an artistic mind.illustrations are quite impressive

Can i used this for logo?

kalb is in german the word for some baby animals (like baby cow or baby whale...) ;)

"Basic necessity" in English

I think a person who speaks arabic would definitely understand swahili.

This type of guide can be usefull e.g in japanese, in arabic they have alphabet like latin, cyrilic so you only have to learn letters and sounds of the words (like Englishman and russian).

Kawa :D

I can read it just fine. Took about one week of half assed effort. Probably half as much effort as your bitching about it on every picture.

Zaraafah.

Being in Africa surrounded by these most graceful animals , this is what i connect to most and i have done Arabic Calligraphy at AUC - must say you have taken this art to a whole a new level : Elf Mabrouk ! and thank you for sharing it with the world!! Jameel Jiddan!!!!!!

Without how to say it, it only nice art.

In urdu we said battakh

The little dot at the bottom is the egg that it lays?

fill in the blanks : . D_ck ==> B_tt

Really duck like.

Bateekh. In an Arab Driving School comedy skit on YouTube, the instructor was named Aboo Bataataa Abu Bateekhah ( ابو بطاطا ابو بطيخة ), as in he is "The Father of Potato, the son of The Father of Watermelon." :-D

I love how he has used the seeds to depict the stress marks! :-)

well done. but It's "بط", "بطة" is plural.

Buttiekh.