Arabic Alphabet
The following table shows the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. The yellow
line under each letter indicates the baseline. This ordering of the letters
is used in dictionaries, and is called the hijaa'ii order. For more details
on the Arabic alphabet, see its entry in Wikipedia.
| # | letter | listen | transliteration | name |
|---|
| 1 | ا | x | a | alif |
| 2 | ب | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Voiced_bilabial_plosive.ogg | b | baa' |
| 3 | ت | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Voiceless_alveolar_plosive.ogg | t | taa' |
| 4 | ث | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Voiceless_dental_fricative.ogg | th | thaa' |
| 5 | ج | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Voiced_palato-alveolar_affricate.ogg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Voiced_palato-alveolar_sibilant.ogg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/58/Voiced_velar_stop.ogg/Voiced_velar_stop.ogg.ogg | j | jiim |
| 6 | ح | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Voiceless_pharyngeal_fricative.ogg | H | Haa' |
| 7 | خ | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Voiceless_velar_fricative.ogg | kh | khaa' |
| 8 | د | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Voiced_alveolar_plosive.ogg | d | daal |
| 9 | ذ | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Voiced_dental_fricative.ogg | dh | dhaal |
| 10 | ر | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Alveolar_trill.ogg | r | raa' |
| 11 | ز | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Voiced_alveolar_sibilant.ogg | z | zayn/zaay |
| 12 | س | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Voiceless_alveolar_sibilant.ogg | s | siin |
| 13 | ش | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Voiceless_palato-alveolar_sibilant.ogg | sh | shiin |
| 14 | ص | | S | Saad |
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| # | letter | listen | transliteration | name |
|---|
| 15 | ض | | D | Daad |
| 16 | ط | | T | Taa' |
| 17 | ظ | | DH | DHaa' |
| 18 | ع | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Voiced_pharyngeal_fricative.ogg | 3 | 'ayn |
| 19 | غ | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Voiced_velar_fricative.ogg | gh | ghayn |
| 20 | ف | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Voiceless_labiodental_fricative.ogg | f | faa' |
| 21 | ق | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Voiceless_uvular_plosive.ogg | q | qaaf |
| 22 | ك | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Voiceless_velar_plosive.ogg | k | kaaf |
| 23 | ل | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Alveolar_lateral_approximant.ogg | l | laam |
| 24 | م | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Bilabial_nasal.ogg | m | miim |
| 25 | ن | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Alveolar_nasal.ogg | n | nuun |
| 26 | ه | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Voiceless_glottal_fricative.ogg | h | haa' |
| 27 | و | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Voiced_labio-velar_approximant.ogg | wu | waaw |
| 28 | ي | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Palatal_approximant.ogg | yi | yaa' |
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