The word
بَغْداد
baghdad
BaghdadArabicبَغْداد
Arabizibaghdad
TranslationBaghdad
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
بَغْداد reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Type:F
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
غ
ghayn
gh
A gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.
Type:Y
04
Letter
د
dāl
d
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Type:]
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
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 — 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
- 01F→ب
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03Y→غ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05]→د
- 06H→ا
- 07]→د
Composedبَغْداد