The word
ضَواحي
dawa7i
the suburbsArabicضَواحي
Arabizidawa7i
Translationthe suburbs
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
ضَواحي reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ض
ḍād
ḍ
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
Type:Q
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū
A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:,
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
05
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ
ḥ
A breathy h from deep in the throat — heavier than an English 'h'.
Type:P
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
- 01Q→ض
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03,→و
- 04H→ا
- 05P→ح
- 06D→ي
Composedضَواحي