New Qur'anic vocabulary tool. It a continuous quiz on Qur'anic Arabic which contains words making up 59% of the Qur'an.

http://commonquranicwords.railsplayground.net/words

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Abu said…
Salam,

Also try the following site for Quranic/Classical Arabic

http://www.80percentwords.com/
17 March 2009 at 03:30
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