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The word
اَلْأُرْدُن

alurdun

Jordan
Arabicاَلْأُرْدُن
Arabizialurdun
TranslationJordan
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

اَلْأُرْدُن reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
04
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa

A glottal stop carried on an alif.

Type:Shift+H
05
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
06
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
07
Letter
د
dāl
d

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

Type:]
08
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
09
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does alurdun mean in Arabizi?

alurdun is how you write اَلْأُرْدُن in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Jordan”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 11 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

It sits in the travel & places lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.

Practice typing this word →
Sequence
  1. 01Hا
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Gل
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Shift+Hأ
  6. 06Shift+Eـُḍamma
  7. 07Vر
  8. 08Shift+Xـْ
  9. 09]د
  10. 10Shift+Eـُḍamma
  11. 11Kن
Composedاَلْأُرْدُن
اَلْأُرْدُن
Practice

Type اَلْأُرْدُن until your fingers know it.

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