Guidelines for Transliteration
Consonants:
Arabic Letter |
Latin Alphabet |
Examples |
Arabic Letter |
Latin Alphabet |
Examples |
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Arabic Writing |
Latin Writing |
Arabic Writing |
Latin Writing |
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أ |
‘(a, i, u) |
القرأة |
al-Qirā’ah |
ض |
Ḍ |
ضَلَلَ |
Ḍalala |
ب |
B |
بَعَثَ |
Ba‘atha |
ط |
Ṭ |
طَلَعَ |
Ṭala‘a |
ت |
T |
تَابَ |
Taba |
ظ |
Ẓ |
ظَفَرَ |
Ẓafara |
ث |
Th |
ثَوابَ |
Thawaba |
ع |
‘(a, i, u) |
عَلَيْهِ |
‘Alayh |
ج |
J |
جَعَلَ |
Ja‘ala |
غ |
Gh |
غَفَرَ |
Ghafara |
ح |
Ḥ |
حَلَبَ |
Ḥalaba |
ف |
F |
فَلَحَ |
Falaḥa |
خ |
Kh |
خَطَبَ |
Khataba |
ق |
Q |
قَلَمَ |
Qalama |
د |
D |
دَفَعَ |
Dafa‘a |
ك |
K |
كَتَبَ |
Kataba |
ذ |
Dh |
ذَهَبَ |
Dhahaba |
ل |
L |
لَعَبَ |
La‘iba |
ر |
R |
رَجَعَ |
Raja‘a |
م |
M |
مَنَعَ |
Mana‘a |
ز |
Z |
زَرَعَ |
Zara‘a |
ن |
N |
نَالَ |
Nala |
س |
S |
سَمَعَ |
Sami‘a |
و |
W |
وَعَدَ |
Wa‘ada |
ش |
Sh |
شَفَعَ |
Shafa‘a |
ه |
H |
هَدَمَ |
Hadama |
ص |
Ṣ |
صَعَدَ |
Ṣa‘ada |
ي |
Y |
يَعْلَمُ |
Ya’lamu |
Long vocal:
Arabic Letter |
Latin Alphabet |
Examples |
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Arabic Writing |
Latin Writing |
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أ |
Ā |
قال |
Qāla |
إي |
Ī |
وكيل |
Wakīl |
أو |
Ū |
موسى |
Musa |
Short Vocal:
Arabic Letter |
Latin Alphabet |
Examples |
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Arabic Writing |
Latin Writing |
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فتحة |
A |
نَصَرَ |
Naṣara |
كسرة |
I |
سَلِمَ |
Salima |
ضمة |
U |
يَنْصُرُ |
Yanṣuru |
Difthong (Shaddah)
Arabic Letter |
Latin Alphabet |
Examples |
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Arabic Writing |
Latin Writing |
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أوّ |
Aww |
أَوَّابَ |
Awwāba |
أيّ |
Ay |
أَيَّامَ |
Ayyāma |
أَوْ |
Aw |
قَوْلَ |
Qawla |
ايّ |
Iy |
إِيَّاكَ |
Iyyāka |
Notes :
The term of a word derived from the Arabic word but has become a household name spelled according to Malay word like the word ulama, ilmiah, Quran, Hadith and others.
The examples of reference/footnote after transliteration:
Abū al-Sa‘ūd, al-‘Umādī. (2011). Irshād al-‘Aql al-Salīm ’ilā Mazāyā al-Qur’ān al-Karīm. Beīrūt: Dār ’Iḥyā’ al-Turāth al-‘Arabī.
Abū Zahrah, Muḥammad. (n.d). Zahrah Al-Tafāsīr. N.p: Dār Al-Fikr Al-ʿArabī.
Ibn ‘Āshūr, Muḥammad al-Ṭāhir. (1984). al-Taḥrīr wa al-Tanwīr, Tūnis: al-Dār al-Tūnisīyah lil Nashr
Ibn Manẓūr, Muhammad. (1993). Lisān al-ʿArab. Beirut: Dār al-Kutb al-‘Ilmiyyah
Ibn Qayyim, Abū ‘Abd Allāh. (2003). Madārij al-Sālikīn baina Manāzil Iyyāka Na’budu wa Iyyāka Nasta’īn. Beirūt; Dār al-Kitāb al-‘Arabī, 7th ed.
Jarār, Sāid Fāiz Maḥmūd. (2014). Alfāẓ al-Hidāyah wa al-Ḍalāl fī al-Qurān al-Karīm fī Ḍau’ Tafsīrī al-Qurṭubī wa al-Sya’rāwī: (Dirāsah Ṣurfiyyah Naḥwiyyah, Dilāliyyah). Palesṭin: Risālah Mājistir fī al-Lughah al-‘Arabiyyah wa Ādābihā Jāmi’ah al-Najāḥ al-Waṭaniyyah.
Quṭb, Said. (2003). Tafsīr al-Qurān Fī Ẓilal al-Qurān. Cairo: Dār al-Syurūq, 32nd ed.
Roslān, Anuar Aḥmad. (n.d) Uṣūl al-Idārah al-‘Āmāh. Dār al-Nahḍah al-‘Arabiyyah lil Nashr wa al-Tauzī’.
Ṭaha ‘Ābidīn, Yāsīn bin Ḥafiẓ, Fakhr Al-Dīn al-Zubair. (2017). al-Hidāyāt al-Qurāniyyah Dirāsat Ta’Ṣiliyya. Al-Makkah al-Mukarramah: Jāmi’ah Umm al-Qurā, Maktabah al-Mutanabbī.