Apartments

ديسمبر 15th, 2007

One topic that is very important is vocabulary involved in renting an apartment. The Arabic word for apartment is شَقّة - shaqqa (pl. سُقَق - shuqaq).
Here is an advertisement for an apartment:
http://www.mehtag.com/
Some useful words here:
رقم (roqum) - number
لِلبيع (lilbay’) - for sale
سعر (si’r) - price
منطقة (mintaqa) - area, region
مصر (misr) - Egypt
شارع (shaari’) - street
In the description, it says منطقه حيويه وجميله, with the word منطقة (area). This word is followed by three adjectives, which are connected with the word “and” which is و (wa) in Arabic. The adjectives are حيوية (hayawiya), which means vitality, vigor, lively …, and جميلة (jamila), which means beautiful. The third adjective is راقية.
The advertisement also says غرف وريسبش وحمام ومطبخ.
غرف (ghuraf) - rooms (singular - غرفة, ghurfa)
حمام (hamaam) - bathroom
مطبخ (matbakh) - kitchen

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