Guidelines for Transliteration

 

 

Consonants:

 

Arabic Letter

Latin Alphabet

Examples

Arabic Letter

Latin Alphabet

Examples

Arabic Writing

Latin Writing

Arabic Writing

Latin Writing

أ

‘(a, i, u)

القرأة

al-Qirā’ah

ض

ضَلَلَ

Ḍalala

ب

B

بَعَثَ

Ba‘atha

ط

طَلَعَ

Ṭala‘a

ت

T

تَابَ

Taba

ظ

ظَفَرَ

Ẓafara

ث

Th

ثَوابَ

Thawaba

ع

‘(a, i, u)

عَلَيْهِ

‘Alayh

ج

J

جَعَلَ

Ja‘ala

غ

Gh

غَفَرَ

Ghafara

ح

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

صَعَدَ

Ṣa‘ada

ي

Y

يَعْلَمُ

Ya’lamu

 

 

Long vocal:

 

Arabic Letter

Latin Alphabet

Examples

Arabic Writing

Latin Writing

أ

Ā

قال

Qāla

إي

Ī

وكيل

Wakīl

أو

Ū

موسى

Musa

 

 

Short Vocal:

 

Arabic Letter

Latin Alphabet

Examples

Arabic Writing

Latin Writing

فتحة

A

نَصَرَ

Naṣara

كسرة

I

سَلِمَ

Salima

ضمة

U

يَنْصُرُ

Yanṣuru

 

 

Difthong (Shaddah)

 

Arabic Letter

Latin Alphabet

Examples

Arabic Writing

Latin Writing

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.