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The word
صَديق

sadiq

a friend, friend
Arabicصَديق
Arabizisadiq
Translationa friend, friend
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

صَديق reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
ص
ṣād

An emphatic 's' — pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.

Type:W
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
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
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 — 5 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

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Sequence
  1. 01Wص
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03]د
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Rق
Composedصَديق
صَديق
Practice

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