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The word
رِياضة

riada

sport, mathematics
Arabicرِياضة
Arabiziriada
Translationsport, mathematics
TypeNoun
Rootر و ض
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

رِياضة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
05
Letter
ض
ḍād

An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.

Type:Q
06
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ'. It 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.
Arabizi

What does riada mean in Arabizi?

riada is how you write رِياضة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “sport, mathematics”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

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.

Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.

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Sequence
  1. 01Vر
  2. 02Shift+Aـِkasra
  3. 03Dي
  4. 04Hا
  5. 05Qض
  6. 06Mة
Composedرِياضة
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for riada:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentرِياضةriadathe base form, for one
Pluralرِياضاتriadatfor three or more
رِياضة
Practice

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.