Welcome to the fifth lesson on how to read the Quran in Arabic using the famous Noorani Qaida (نوراني قاعدة) booklet.

In this lesson you will be introduced to your second Arabic vowel, dammah.

 

Dammah – Short “U” Vowel

You should remember from earlier lessons that Arabic letters do not contain any vowels.

Arabic vowels are actually marks that appear on top or bottom of the letter.

So in Arabic, if you were to write the word “dudu”. You would write it as: “dd”.

So the third Arabic vowel is called dammah and it is equivalent to a short “U”.

Note a dammah is wow (the Arabic letter)shaped sign drawn on top of an Arabic letter, see the video for examples.

So using our “dudu” example you would draw a dammah on top of each “D” and that would give it a “U” vowel sound.

D + (Dammah on Top) = Du

 

How to Study this Lesson?

When you master the sound each Arabic letter makes with a dammah on it, then move on to the 2nd part of the lesson.

Now lets take the first box on the second row from the right on the second part of the lesson. It contains the Arabic letters: “Kh” “b” and “th”

Now the word here is a mixture of fathas and dammahs. So after each letter write the appropriate Arabic vowel.

Khbth (No vowels)

Kh + Fatha = Kha

b + dammah = bu

th + Fatha = tha

All together = Khabutha

On a separate sheet of paper try to do this for each box in this lesson. Then watch the video to see whether you get it right or not.