The word
أَصْدِقاء
asdiqa'
friendsArabicأَصْدِقاء
Arabiziasdiqa'
Translationfriends
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryHobbies →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
أَصْدِقاء 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
ص
ṣād
ṣ
An emphatic 's' — pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.
Type:W
04
Letter
د
dāl
d
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Type:]
05
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
06
Letter
ق
qāf
q
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
Type:R
07
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
08
Letter
ء
hamza
ʾ
A glottal stop — the catch in the middle of 'uh-oh'.
Type:X
← 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 — 9 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
- 03W→ص
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05]→د
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07R→ق
- 08H→ا
- 09X→ء
Composedأَصْدِقاء