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The word
الْصَّوْت

assawt

noise
Arabicالْصَّوْت
Arabiziassawt
Translationnoise
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryHome
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

الْصَّوْت 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
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l' — a tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
03
Letter
ص
ṣād

An emphatic 's' — pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.

Type:W
04
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on — hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
07
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
← 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
  1. 01Hا
  2. 02Gل
  3. 03Shift+Xـْ
  4. 04Wص
  5. 05Shift+`ـّshadda
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07,و
  8. 08Shift+Xـْ
  9. 09Jت
Composedالْصَّوْت
الْصَّوْت
Practice

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