Egyptian Arabic Curriculum — Grade 6, Semester 2 — Page 25

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

أَنَا مِصْرُ.. يَعْرِفُنِي الْعَالَمُ.

I am Egypt; the world knows me.

وَلَكِنْ إِذَا كُنْتَ تَوَدُّ أَنْ تَعْرِفَ عَنِّي أَكْثَرَ، فَابْعَثْ عَنْ تَارِيخِي فِي كُتُبِ الْعَالَمِ، فَأَطْفَالُ الْعَالَمِ يَدْرُسُونَ تَارِيخِي وَحَضَارَتِي فِي مَدَارِسِهِمْ وَيَتَحَدَّثُونَ عَنِّي فِي كُتُبِهِمْ.

If you wish to know more, look for my history in the world's books. Children everywhere study my history and civilization in their schools and write about me in their texts.

وَإِذَا أَرَدْتَ فَانْظُرْ إِلَى الْوَرَقَةِ الَّتِي تَقْرَؤُهَا الْآنَ؛ فَأَنَا مَنِ اخْتَرَعَ وَرَقَ الْبَرْدِي، وَقَدَّمْتُهُ لِلْعَالَمِ، كَمَا خَرَجَتْ مِنْ أَرْضِي الْهِيرُوغْلِيفِيَّةُ، وَهِيَ وَاحِدَةٌ مِنْ أَوَائِلِ طَرَائِقِ الْكِتَابَةِ فِي التَّارِيخ.

If you like, look at the paper you are reading now. I am the one who invented papyrus and gave it to the world, just as hieroglyphics—one of the earliest forms of writing in history—emerged from my soil.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (22 verbs · 33 nouns)

• عَرَفَ — to know
• كَانَ — to be
• وَدَّ — to want
• عَالَمُ — world, universe
• تَارِيخُ — history
• كِتَابُ — book