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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated by means of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for Lebanese Arabic words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia and differ from those used by dictionaries.
The standard pronunciation of ج in MSA varies regionally, most prominently in the Arabian Peninsula, parts of the Levant, Iraq, north-central Algeria, and parts of Egypt, it is also considered as the predominant pronunciation of Literary Arabic outside the Arab world and the pronunciation mostly used in Arabic loanwords across other languages ...
a widespread pronunciation of /q/ as (the Druze, however, retain the uvular ). A strong tendency to pronounce long /aː/ as (imala) in a front phonemic context or (tafkhim) in a back phonemic context. This tendency is stronger as one goes northward.
It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Egyptian Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.
Ka'ak (Arabic: كعك; also transliterated kaak) or kahqa is the common Arabic word for cake or biscuit, in its various senses, and can refer to several different types of baked goods [5] produced throughout the Arab world and the Near East. The bread, in Middle Eastern countries, is similar to a dry and hardened biscuit and mostly ring-shaped.
Markook bread (Arabic: خبز مرقوق, romanized: khubz marqūq), also known as khubz ruqaq (Arabic: رقاق), shrak (Arabic: شراك), khubz rqeeq (Arabic: رقيق), [1] [better source needed] mashrooh (Arabic: مشروح), and saj bread (Arabic: خبز صاج), is a kind of Middle Eastern unleavened flatbread common in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula.
Khubz, alternatively transliterated as khoubz, khobez, khubez, or khubooz, [clarification needed] is the usual word for "bread" in Standard Arabic and in many of the vernaculars. Among the breads popular in Middle Eastern countries are "pocket" pita bread in the Levant and Egypt , and the flat tannur bread in Iraq .