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The word
أَيْضاً

aydan

also
Arabicأَيْضاً
Arabiziaydan
Translationalso
TypeAdverb
CategoryHobbies
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa

A glottal stop carried on an alif.

Type:Shift+H
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
04
Letter
ض
ḍād

An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.

Type:Q
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
06
Diacritic
ـً
tanwīn fatḥ
an

Adds an '-an' ending (two slanted strokes above).

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

What does aydan mean in Arabizi?

aydan is how you write أَيْضاً in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “also”. 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 — 7 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 hobbies 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. 01Shift+Hأ
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Dي
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Qض
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Shift+Wـًtanwīn fatḥ
Composedأَيْضاً
In Palestinian Arabic

This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “also” is kamaan (كَمان). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear kamaan on Tfaddalu →

كَمان
أَيْضاً
Practice

Type أَيْضاً until your fingers know it.

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

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