Arabic Directions Vocabulary: how to say in Arabic things like up, down, north, south, top, bottom, and so forth
Vocabulary: Directions
Arabic to English
Arabic | English |
شَمال | north |
جَنُوْب | south |
مَشْرِق | east |
مَغْرِب | west |
على | on, on top |
فَوْق | above, over, up (also on top) |
أَعْلى | higher, top of |
قِمّة | top/peak/apex/pinnacle, brink |
تَحْت | below, beneath/underneath, under,
down |
أَدْنى | lower (also bottom, closer) |
أَسْفَل | bottom (also below, lower) |
جانِب | beside |
يَمِيْن | right (direction) |
يسير | left (direction) |
شِمال | left (direction) |
أَيْمَن | right (as in right hand) |
أَيْسَر | left (as in left hand) |
أَمام | in front (no matter how far) |
مِنْ
بَيْنِ
يَدَيـ… | right in front / in view |
وَراء | behind (no matter how far) |
خَلْف | right behind |
بَيْن | between |
في | in |
حَوْل | around |
قَرِيْب | near |
دانٍ/أَدْنى | close |
بَعِيْد | far |
أَقْصى | distant |
مَرْأىً | eyeshot |
مَسْمَع | earshot |
هُنا | here |
هُناك | there |
أَيْنَ | where? |
