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The word
أَزْرَق

azraq

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Arabicأَزْرَق
Arabiziazraq
Translationblue
TypeMasculine adjective
CategoryClothes
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أَزْرَق 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
ز
zāy
z

A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.

Type:.
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
ق
qāf
q

A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.

Type:R
← 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. 03.ز
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Vر
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Rق
Composedأَزْرَق
أَزْرَق
Practice

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