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The word
وَسِخ

wasikh

dirty
Arabicوَسِخ
Arabiziwasikh
Translationdirty
TypeMasculine adjective
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
  1. 01,و
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Sس
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05Oخ
Composedوَسِخ
وَسِخ
Practice

Type وَسِخ until your fingers know it.

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