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The word
واحِدة

wa7ida

one
Arabicواحِدة
Arabiziwa7ida
Translationone
TypeFeminine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
03
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

A breathy h from deep in the throat — heavier than an English 'h'.

Type:P
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
د
dāl
d

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

Type:]
06
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.

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Sequence
  1. 01,و
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Pح
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05]د
  6. 06Mة
Composedواحِدة
واحِدة
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