The word
أَسَدي
asadi
my lionArabicأَسَدي
Arabiziasadi
Translationmy lion
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryDescriptions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
أَسَدي 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
س
sīn
s
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
Type:S
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
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
← 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 — 6 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
- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03S→س
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05]→د
- 06D→ي
Composedأَسَدي