The word
اقْتِصاد
aqtisad
an economy, economyArabicاقْتِصاد
Arabiziaqtisad
Translationan economy, economy
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryJobs & work →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
اقْتِصاد reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
02
Letter
ق
qāf
q
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
Type:R
03
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
Type:J
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ص
ṣād
ṣ
An emphatic 's' — pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.
Type:W
06
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
07
Letter
د
dāl
d
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Type:]
← 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 — 8 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
- 01H→ا
- 02R→ق
- 03Shift+X→ـْ
- 04J→ت
- 05Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 06W→ص
- 07H→ا
- 08]→د
Composedاقْتِصاد