Sunday, October 10, 2010

5th Letter: Jiim

MaRHabaen to the 5th dreamscape.  Can you find the 5 symbols in the Suura?




1) The Southern Ocean (the 5th Ocean) tells us this image is the fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet.


2) The Shape of the jellyfish with it's tail sticking out and the fish in the middle being digested reflect the shape of the letter.


3) Jellyfish gives us the sound of the letter as "J", which is how this letter is pronounced in the gulf region, but the proper MSA pronunciation is actually a more French like sound which we hear in English rarely in words like garage (2nd g) and measure (the s).  In Egypt this sound is pronounced as a "g" like in gold.


4) The Jellyfish is translucent so this is clearly a Light letter.


5) This scene is at night under the moonlight, so it's a Lunar letter.


AS A WORD


Jae'a is a hollow verb (a special class of verbs that have fewer than three consonants because they have 'elif as a vowel in the middle).  The second consonant in this word, the apostrophe, is just a glottal stop like in the middle of our word "Latin" in English.  It has many meanings.


I. to come, arrive, show up; to reach, get to


II. to bring, bring forward, fetch, get, produce, advance, present, introduce


III. to be mentioned, stated, reported, said


IV. the newspaper reports that...

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