Heavy Letters In Arabic
Heavy Letters In Arabic Examples
The Heavy Letters In Arabic
Heavy Letters In Arabic

Compare the light to the heavy letters

Arabic has seven heavy sounds that do not exist in the English language. As well as seven lighter sounding counterparts that do exist in both the English and the Arabic language. What does counterpart mean? Counterpart means for every heavy sound in the Arabic letters there is also a. The Arabic letters are divided into three groups as to tafkheem and tarqeeq: 1. Letters that always have tafkheem. (Then the heavy ones come with three levels and they are. The one with a fath, then the dhammah, then the kasrah, and the saakin follows what preceded it.

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Here is a matter of phonetics...
Arabic hasseven heavy sounds that do not exist in the English language.
Also, Arabic has lighter sounds that do exist in the English langauge.
The seven heavy letters, or the 'tricky' sounds, are covered in this module.
Compare the SOUNDS of the heavy vs. light letters:
14-2 light v.s. heavy sounds
LIGHT LETTERS
Found in Arabic & English
HEAVY LETTERS
Found only in Arabic NOT English
د
d
(e.g. day)

ض
2ḍ

هـ
h
(e.g. happy)
ح
ḥ

س
s
(e.g. sad)

ص
ṣ

ت
t
(e.g. tame)

ط
ṭ

ث
th
(e.g. thin)

ذ
1dh

ك
k
(e.g. kind)

ق
1q

ز
13 z
(e.g. zebra)

ظ
14ẓ

Heavy Letters In Arabic

Be careful:
1- Hearing the difference between the light and the heavy letters is critical to pronouncing Arabic correctly.

English speakers tend to change the the heavy sounds to the light sounds.
Falooka places a dot under transliterated heavy sounds. For example:ḍ - ṣ -

Heavy Letters Arabic