The root system: 80% from 20%
Quranic Arabic · a self-paced course lesson
Quranic vocabulary is dramatically more learnable than it looks, because words come in root families. From ع-ل-م: 'alima (he knew), 'ilm (knowledge), 'alim (knower), 'ulama (scholars), ta'lam (you know), al-'alamin (the worlds — that which makes the Maker known). Learn one root well and you have pre-learned a dozen words before meeting them.