Body parts in Arabic
Arabic · Early Years · The School
Head and hand
رَأْس (ra's) means head. يَد (yad) means hand. Touch your own head and say ra's. Hold up your hand and say yad. Say each word slowly, then a little faster.
Eye and ear
عَيْن (ʿayn) means eye. أُذُن (udhun) means ear. Point to your eye and say ʿayn. Point to your ear and say udhun. Notice ʿayn starts with the same throat sound you met before, from the letter ع.
Simon says, in Arabic
Play a simple game. Someone calls out a word — ra's, yad, ʿayn, or udhun — and everyone touches that body part as fast as they can. Swap who calls the word out each round. The fastest to touch the right part wins that round.
Stand up and do this in order. Touch your ra's (head). Hold up your yad (hand). Point to your ʿayn (eye). Point to your udhun (ear). Now do the whole sequence again, but say each Arabic word out loud a split second BEFORE you touch the part, not after. Saying the word first, and then matching your body to it, is much harder than the other way round — and it is exactly the skill that makes a word truly stick.