The word
وَسِخ
wasikh
dirtyArabicوَسِخ
Arabiziwasikh
Translationdirty
TypeMasculine adjective
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
وَسِخ 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
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
س
sīn
s
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
Type:S
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh
The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
Type:O
← 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.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01,→و
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03S→س
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05O→خ
Composedوَسِخ