Levantine Arabic/Weather
Basic terms
edit| طقس/جوء | ṭaʔs/jo2 | weather |
| دنيا | dinya/dunya | world |
| كيف/شلون الطقس/الجوء اليوم؟ | kif/shlon alta2s/jo2 alyom? | How is the weather today? |
| الطقس/الجوء... | iṭ-ṭaʔs ... | The weather is ... |
| الدنيا ... | id-dinya/dunya... | It's ... |
الطقس (iṭ-ṭaqs) is followed by an adjective (hot, cold, sunny etc.).
الدبيا (id-dinya) is used as a dummy subject like “It's ...” in English. It can be followed by a verb (raining, snowing etc.), or a noun corresponding to an adjective (heat = hot, sun = sunny etc.).
Temperature
edit| حرارة harāra | temperature |
| درجة daraje | degree(s) |
| درجات darajāt | degrees (after number 3-10) |
| Noun | Adjective | Adjective of feeling |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| شوب šōb حرّ ḥarr |
مشوّب mšawweb حارّ ḥārr |
شوبان šōbān | hot |
| دفا dafa | دافي dāfi | دفيان dafyān | warm |
| برد bard | بارد bāred | بردان bardān | cold |
In order to express someone's sensation of the temperature, special adjectives with the ending “-ān” are used.
| الدنيا شوب اليوم. | id-dinya šōb il-yōm | It's hot today. |
| الشمس حارّة. | iš-šams ḥārra | The sun is hot. |
| أنا شوبان. | 'ana šōbān | I'm feeling hot. |
| قدّيش درجة/درجات الحرارة؟ | ʔaddēš darajet/darajāt il-harāra? | What's the temperature? |
| خمسة وعشرين درجة. | ḵamse w-ʕišrīn daraja | (It's) 25 degrees. |
| خمس (درجات) تحت الصفر. | ḵams (darajāt) taḥt iṣ-ṣifr | (It's) 5 (degrees) below zero. |
The sky
edit| سماء sama2 | sky | Verb (past) | Verb (present) | Adjective | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| شمش šams (f) | sun | شمّس šammas | بشمّس bišammes | مشمّس mšammes | sunny | |
| غيم ḡēm | clouds | غيّم ḡayyam | بغيّم biḡayyem | مغيّم mḡayyem | cloudy | |
| شتى
šita (m) |
rain | شتّى šatta | بشتّي bišatti | مشتّي mšatti | raining |
When used with a verb, الدنيا (id-dinya) can be omitted as long as the verb is not the only remaining word in the sentence.
States like “sunny” and “cloudy” can be expressed by verbs well, which have the meaning of “to be ...” or “to become ...”.
| غيّمت الدنيا. | ḡayyamat id-dinya | It's cloudy. (“The world became cloudy.”) |
| السما مغيّمة. | is-sama mḡayyme | The sky is cloudy. |
| (الدنيا) عم بتشتّي. | (id-dinya) ʕam bitšatti | It's raining. |
| شتّت مبارح. | šattat mbāreḥ | It rained yesterday. |