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The word
أَبَداً

abadan

at all
Arabicأَبَداً
Arabiziabadan
Translationat all
TypeAdverb
CategoryFamily
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أَبَداً reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa

A glottal stop carried on an alif.

Type:Shift+H
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
05
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
06
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
07
Diacritic
ـً
tanwīn fatḥ
an

Adds an '-an' ending — two slanted strokes above.

Type:Shift+W
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 7 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

Practice typing this word →
Sequence
  1. 01Shift+Hأ
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Fب
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05]د
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Shift+Wـًtanwīn fatḥ
Composedأَبَداً
أَبَداً
Practice

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