suda3
a headache, headacheThe word, broken down.
صُداع reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
An emphatic 's', pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
What does suda3 mean in Arabizi?
suda3 is how you write صُداع in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “a headache, headache”.
The 3 stands for ع (ayn): a throaty sound. No clean English equivalent. 3 is a mirrored ع.
For the rest of the chat alphabet, see the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 5 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 health & the body 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 →- 01W→ص
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03]→د
- 04H→ا
- 05U→ع