If you’re looking for a basic book full of vocabulary words and pictures, look no further than First Thousand Words in Arabic by Heather Amery. It’s part of a series- they have this same book for many languages. I found it at a used book store (surprise? no.) in Vermont and I absolutely love to leaf through it from time to time. Here are some shapes from the book- and please excuse the cheesy blog post title, if you get the reference.
الأشكال ashkal
:shapes
دائرة da’era
:circle
مربع murraba’
:square
مستطيل mustateel
:rectangle
بيضي baydi
:oval
معين ma’een
:diamond
هلال hilal
:crescent
مثلث muthalath
:triangle
نجمة najama
:star (remember Space Oddity?)
مخروط makhroot
:cone
مكعب muka’ab
:cube
