Telling the Time in Arabic

Time is money, or as we say it in Arabic: الوَقْتُ مِنْ ذَهَب (= al-waqt men thahab). Telling the time is always a challenge in any language because it quit between language to another. First, let's introduce to few vocabularies about this subjects.

Vocabularies
ساعة (= saàah) clock, watch, hour
وقت (= waqt) time
العقرب الكبير (= al-àaqrab al-kabeer) big hand
العقرب الصغير (= al-àaqrab al-sageer) little hand
ربع (= rubà) quarter
ثلث (= thulth) one-third
نصف (= nesf) half
دقيقة (= daqeeqah) minute
ثانية (= thaneyah) second
إلا (= ella) except

Also, take a look in this picture for different types of clocks.

 How to tell the time in Arabic
There are two situations, either the big hand is pointing to 12 or is not. For the first case, you simply read the number that little hand is pointing. For the second case, you will use one of these two formulas:

Number + WA (which means AND) + fraction
Number + ELLA (which means EXCEPT) + fraction

depending on where the big hand is pointing to. The next infographic will describe which formula you should use and when.

TEST -  
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