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The word
الْسّودان

assudan

Sudan
Arabicالْسّودان
Arabiziassudan
TranslationSudan
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

الْسّودان 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
Letter
ل
lām
l

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

Type:G
03
Letter
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
04
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
05
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
06
Letter
د
dāl
d

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

Type:]
07
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
08
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 assudan mean in Arabizi?

assudan is how you write الْسّودان in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Sudan”. 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 — 9 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. 02Gل
  3. 03Shift+Xـْ
  4. 04Sس
  5. 05Shift+`ـّshadda
  6. 06,و
  7. 07]د
  8. 08Hا
  9. 09Kن
Composedالْسّودان
الْسّودان
Practice

Type الْسّودان until your fingers know it.

Or practice it inside the full Travel & places session, one of sixteen sets in our free Arabic typing practice tool.

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