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So you want to write your name in Arabic? But don't know one letter of the Arabic Alphabet or how to write in Arabic?

You are definitely on the right page!

Before you even start learning Arabic I will show you how to write your name in the Arabic language, just like an Arabic person. And right now!

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You do not need to master the Classical Arabic language.

You do not need to learn how to write the Modern Arabic.

And you do not even need to speak any Colloquial Arabic dialects.

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Now, before we start, here is the Arabic alphabet:الأبجديه العربيه

The very first thing I want you to know about Arabic writing, is that it goes the opposite direction from English.

When I want to write my name in Arabic, I will start from the right and I will go to the left.

Here are the basics:

1. There are 28 basic Arabic letters, plus the Arabic numerals.


2. Arabic writing goes from right to left.


3. Letters of Arabic words (or names) are connected together, similar to English hand writing.

   In other words, If you want to write your name in Arabic whether by hand or by typing, Arabic letters are always connected (or at least grouped together) to form a word or a name.

   The letters of that word/name are connected, so you can identify each word separately.




Example:-1

The word: Arabic --- عربي


Example:-2

The name: Jackson --- جاكسون


Example:-3

The name: Michael Jackson --- مايكل جاكسون

Please notice that in the Arabic writing above (the name Michael Jackson written in Arabic), the name Michael is the one to the right, and Jackson is the one to the left (opposite to English writing).





4. Most letters have 3 forms/shapes, depending whether the letter is in:
   • The beginning of the word.
   • The middle.
   • The end.

   These forms look like this:

   
   

   

   
   
   

5. A forth form for the letter( rare) is when the letter is isolated, usually when it is not in a word.
   The common example of this isolated letter is the Arabic letter waw -- و this letter equals the English word: and.
   

   Example:

   If you want to write: Mary and Joseph in Arabic:

   • First, you will write: Mary -- ماري starting from the far right.
   • Then you will write the Arabic letter Waw -- و to the left of Mary.
   • Then you will write Joseph -- جوزيف last thing towards the left.

   And 'Mary wa Joseph' will look like this in Arabic writing:

   ماري و جوزيف

   You will pronounce what you've just written, like this: Mary Wa Joseph. (NOT Mary Waw Joseph).

   
   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   

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   If you want to learn from Wikipedia

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   Here is a step-by-step method I'm going to show you, to write your name in Arabic using Wikipedia.

   Go to the Wikipedia website, to the web page:Arabic Alphabetyou will arrive to a huge portal, do not feel overwhelmed, you won't need most of the material there.

   Note... To make it easy for yourself, just print that wikipedia page and keep near you.

   I will guide you, and show you how to navigate.

   
   

   Lets have a look at this Wikipedia page: Arabic Alphabet.

   Under the sub-title Primary letters you will find a table with details about Primary litters( basic letters of the Arabic alphabet).

   
   This table is the only thing you need now to write you name in Arabic, so please keep focus.
   
   • The first column titled General Unicode lists the basic 28 Arabic letters in their original form, starting with the first letter named alif and ending with the 28th letter named yeh.

     Names of these letters are listed in the sixth column of this table named: Name (in blue color, i.e. Hyperlink).

   • The seventh column named: Translit. tells what is the closest equivalent of this Arabic letter in the English alphabet.
   • Columns 4, 5 and 6 named Final, Medial and Initial respectively, show you the forms of the letter when it is in the begining of a word/name (that is the sixth column named: Initial), in the middle ( the fifth column named: Medial) or at the end of a word (the forth column named: Final).

   
   

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   Now I will show you how to write your name in Arabic using only this Wikipedia table.

   
   

   Say, your name is John --- جون

   1. Divide the name into it's basic letters, (how you pronounce your name precisely)...

      In this case you will have 3 basic letters: J - O - N

      So, the Arabic letters that we will need to write the name John are:

      ج

      و

      ن

   2. To write in Arabic, you start from the right and go to the left.
   3. The closest Arabic letter to the English letter J is the Arabic letter gim (pronounced: Jeem) -- ج That is row 5.
   4. Now, because you are starting the name with this letter, therefore choose the form of the letter that is located in the 5th column, named: Initial (that is row 5, column 5).
   5. For the second English letter O, the closest Arabic letter will be waw -- و

      this is the 27th letter, you will find it towards the end of the table, choose the form from the 3ed column (the 4th column is not shown in table but it is identical to the third) because you want to write the letter in the middle of the name.

   6. Take this letter 'waw' (row 27, column 3) and connect it to the first letter 'gim/Jeem'.

      So, when you start writing from right to left, your first letter will be 'gim/Jeem', the second letter will be 'waw'

   Just like this جو

   These two letters you can read as: Jo

   7. Choose the closest Arabic letter to the English letter N, that will be the Arabic letter number 25: nun, pronounced 'noon' -- ن

      Choose the form in column 2, named: 'Isolated', instead of the form in column 3, named: Finale.

      There is a reason for this substitution:

      You can not connect a letter to the left of the waw letter.

      So, in this case the 'nun/noon' letter had to be treated as an isolated letter, i.e. not connected from both sides, hence: isolated.

   8. And this is how the name John is written in Arabic:
      جون

   
   

   I know it sounds confusing and difficult, but it's not !

   
   

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   Conclusion

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   Here is my advice if you really want to write your name in Arabic, in a simple easy way, using only two pages from this website:

   1. Go to The Arabic Alphabet and familiarize yourself with the 28Arabic letters.
   2. Go to the page Write My Name and scan hundreds of names that I've written in Arabic.
   3. Compare the original names written in English and see how I wrote them in Arabic.
   4. Start writing your name in Arabic. Then, if you were not sure of the result, submit your name in the Form (in that same page: Write-My-Name-In-Arabic) and I will write it for you, so you can compare.

      And, yes... it is FREE

   
   

   All the best.
   
   

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