The word
قاضْية
qadi
as a judge, a judgeArabicقاضْية
Arabiziqadi
Translationas a judge, a judge
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryFamily →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
قاضْية reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ق
qāf
q
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
Type:R
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
03
Letter
ض
ḍād
ḍ
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
Type:Q
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
05
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a
The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
Type:M
← 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
- 01R→ق
- 02H→ا
- 03Q→ض
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05D→ي
- 06M→ة
Composedقاضْية