Arabic Course 101

I finally got into learning about the roots of Arabic words. All the other previous grammar was hard, but boring. This is hard, but exciting!

There is one word that wraps up what the Arabic language is like:
القاموس (al-kamuus), which means "dictionary".... but it also means "ocean" because it comes from the root قمس (kamasa) which means "to immerse, to soak, to steep". My mind is just blown away. What an amazing language.

Also, to say "I feel lonely", you can say "أشعر بالوحيدة " (ash'ur bil-wahiida). أشعر comes from the root شعر and means "to know, to feel, to perceive" (among other meanings). الشُعور (as-shu'uur) means "knowledge or perception".

and مشترك (mushtarak) means "collective, combined, or common"....

Stay with me...

If you put them together, you get: الشعر المشترك (as-shu'uur al-mushtarak), which literally means, "perception or knowledge of the collective" = "SOLIDARITY".... oh shitttttttt!!!!

And coming from the same root as مشترك (which is شرك , or "to share, participate, associate"), you have the word اشتراكية , which means.... drum roll... "socialism".

Well, I think that's the same root in English, so that isn't so exciting. Who said socialism was exciting anyways??

Maybe anarchy...