Gender

Arabic nouns are either masculine مُذَكَّر (muḏakkar) or feminine مُؤَنَّث (mu’annath).

Masculine Nouns

The base category – the vast majority of nouns are masculine:

Feminine nouns

1.Nouns ending with ة (tā’ marbūṭa):

This includes words that are exclusively female, like ‘mother/sister/daughter’, feminine names like ‘Zainab’ or things considered feminine in Arabic like cities and countries

3. Body parts which come in pairs are treated as feminine:

4. A limited number of Arabic nouns are treated as feminine arbitrarily, these include: