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"Is Arwa an engineer?"
Translation:هَل أَرْوى مُهَنْدِسة؟
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Jellos1, you have a good question - but advanced a bit.
In short, the "Arwa" word has more than three letters and is not ي as the last letter - like دنيا.
So, it should be written as أروى and not أروا.
Language is culture, so, yes. I got this wrong because I didn't know that it's a common woman's name. I found this wiki helpful for this name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwa Since names have meanings in many cultures, it is vocab building to learn that this name is associated with gracefulness, freshness.
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In my experience, more often than not, names that end in A are female.
Nedia, Hethura, Gammora, Renia, arwa, lama, zorha, nosra, olfa, saida, bedia, houda, fardowsa....All of these are female names. If you learn a male name that ends in A it is an exception to the usual. I think I only know one male with an arabic name that ends in A and I think it is not actually A but the sound that is written in the course with a 3. His name is 3l3 I think not ala but I'm not sure.
A better way to look at it might be from the viewpoint of the Arabic spelling. If the name ends in a ta marbouta, it's almost always feminine. Not always, there are some weird exceptions such as Usama (اسامة) and Khalifa (خليفة), but usually.
On the other hand, if it ends in aleph or aleph + hamza or -allah, it's less predictable.