Google Earth in Arabic
أبريل 2nd, 2008At least the help pages of Google Earth are in Arabic, so I expect the program is also available with an Arabic language interface. When looking at the help pages in English, I noticed a drop-down box which allows you to view the help page in a different language. Arabic is one of the choices, so this is one more opportunity to build vocabulary and practice reading.
The particular help page I looked at asks the question:
كم عمر صور القمر الصناعي التي لديكم؟
كم (kam) - this is the question word, asking “how many”, “how much”, or in this case, “how old”
عمر (’umr) - age; this word can also be used as: كم عمرك؟ (kam umrak?) or “how old are you?”
صور (sur) - picture, image
قمر (qumar) - normally, this word means “moon”, but it can also refer to an artificial satellite, such as one that collects imagery
صناعي (sinaa’i) - artificial
التي (leti) - that, which
لديكم (ladikum) - you have
Thus, the question is asking “How old is the satellite imagery that you have?”

