{"id":13867,"date":"2024-02-21T16:12:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kaleelah.com\/blog\/the-arabic-sukoon-what-it-is-and-how-to-pronounce-it\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:12:49","slug":"the-arabic-sukoon-what-it-is-and-how-to-pronounce-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.kaleelah.com\/en\/blog\/the-arabic-sukoon-what-it-is-and-how-to-pronounce-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arabic SuKoon: What it is and How to Pronounce It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hello and welcome to our blog where today we\u2019ll touch on what is perhaps one of the most misunderstood symbols in Arabic \u2013 the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/ <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;is the symbol \u00b0 which, as you can see, sort of looks like the symbol for \u201cdegrees\u201d in English. In Arabic, the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;represents an absence of the vowel on a letter.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Also known <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">jazm<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">(\u062c\u064e\u0632\u0645)<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">, sukoon\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;is a short letter case, and since letters with vowels cannot be read by themselves, they&nbsp;are&nbsp;read with vowel letters. The <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;means that the letter has no <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Harakaat<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u062d\u064e\u0631\u064e\u06a9\u064e\u0627\u062a<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> above or below the letter, thus it is \u201cstill\u201d.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">When you see the \u00b0 symbol, the letter assigned to it is called a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">saakin<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u0627\u0643\u0650\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> letter. <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">saakin<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u0627\u0643\u0650\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> letters cannot start words and they can\u2019t be read alone without a letter before them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">In today\u2019s lesson, we will&nbsp;learn&nbsp;the meaning of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;in Arabic and how to pronounce it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;border-left:solid #4f81bd 3pt;border-right:solid #4f81bd 3pt;border-top:solid #4f81bd 3pt;border-bottom:solid #4f81bd 3pt;background-color:#4f81bd;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-clip:padding-box;\"><span style=\"font-size:21pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#ffffff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:small-caps;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Meaning of Sukoon in English and Arabic<\/span><\/h1>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 14pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">In English, <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;means \u201crest\u201d, \u201cmotionless\u201d, or \u201cease\u201d. In Arabic, it is a vowelless diacritic or symbol that is&nbsp;used above the letter to show that there&nbsp;is&nbsp;no vowel, and does not really represent any sort of grammar.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 14pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">In other words, <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> is&nbsp;free from any Arabic vowel and remains unchanged when you stop and continue reading in written form and after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 14pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Though it is&nbsp;a letter or combination of letters that&nbsp;is&nbsp;not pronounced at the beginning of a word, you can also find <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;in the middle or at the end of the word. Moreover, it also occurs in phrases and particles, but only at the end of a word.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Finally, each one of the Arabic letters can have <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> and can be written with no vowels on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;border-left:solid #4f81bd 3pt;border-right:solid #4f81bd 3pt;border-top:solid #4f81bd 3pt;border-bottom:solid #4f81bd 3pt;background-color:#4f81bd;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-clip:padding-box;\"><span style=\"font-size:21pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#ffffff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:small-caps;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">How to Pronounce SUKOON<\/span><\/h1>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Here is how to pronounce letters with sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:21pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:21pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:21pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> :<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#366091;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:small-caps;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Position<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">:&nbsp;when pronouncing <\/span><span style=\"font-size:21pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:21pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:21pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">, your tongue should be kept in a neutral position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:4pt 0pt 14pt 0pt;\"><span 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Be sure the pause is a bit shorter than the pause for a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">saakin<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u0627\u0643\u0650\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> letter (non-vowel letter) followed by a consonant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 14pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#366091;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:small-caps;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Breath Control<\/span><span style=\"font-size:19pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#303030;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Once you pause, you want to maintain the reading flow so take a few breaths before going on to the next letter after <\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">sukoon<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#366091;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:small-caps;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Listen to the Professionals<\/span><span style=\"font-size:19pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#303030;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-size:19pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#303030;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Today, you\u2019ll find many famous reciters of the Quran such as Mishary Rashid Alafasy, Sheikh Sudais, and Saud Shuraim who you can listen to and see how sukoon\/<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> is&nbsp;pronounced. Try to emulate what you hear and reproduce their style.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:19pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#366091;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:small-caps;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Practice Makes Perfect:<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> Of course, you don\u2019t have to sound exactly like those who have mastered <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">th<b>e art of <\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Tajweed <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">(the rules of reading the Qur\u2019an). However, as they say, if you don\u2019t use it, you\u2019ll lose it, so practice often to improve your Arabic speaking skills.&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Of course, there is more to sukoon than this, so keep checking back here on our blog for more. It\u2019s all a part of helping you to learn Arabic the right way when you learn it with Kaleela.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-7150a30f-7fff-6a2a-207a-db2025f5cb84\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\">And as always, if you want to learn more about Arab culture and the Arabic language, visit our website at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kaleela.page.link\/bgs\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\">kaleela.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\">, download the app, check out our blog, and join us on social media where there\u2019s always something new to learn about Arabic.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to our blog where today we\u2019ll touch on what is perhaps one of the most misunderstood symbols in Arabic \u2013 the sukoon\/ \u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646. The&nbsp;sukoon\/\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646&nbsp;is the symbol \u00b0 which, as you can see, sort of looks like the symbol for \u201cdegrees\u201d in English. In Arabic, the sukoon\/\u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646&nbsp;represents an absence of the vowel on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,77,73],"class_list":["post-13867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-about-arabic-language","tag-arabic-grammar","tag-modern-standard-arabic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.0 (Yoast SEO v25.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Arabic SuKoon: What it is and How to Pronounce It - Kaleela App<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Arabic SuKoon: What it is and How to Pronounce It\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello and welcome to our blog where today we\u2019ll touch on what is perhaps one of the most misunderstood symbols in Arabic \u2013 the sukoon\/ \u0633\u064f\u0643\u0648\u0646. 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