The word
زَرْقاء
zarqa'
blueArabicزَرْقاء
Arabizizarqa'
Translationblue
TypeFeminine adjective
CategoryClothes →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
زَرْقاء reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ز
zāy
z
A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.
Type:.
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
04
Letter
ق
qāf
q
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
Type:R
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Letter
ء
hamza
ʾ
A glottal stop — the catch in the middle of 'uh-oh'.
Type:X
← 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 — 7 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.→ز
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05R→ق
- 06H→ا
- 07X→ء
Composedزَرْقاء