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- "رَواد وَجودي"
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The audio sounds like "Rawadun wa Judy". What's the reason for adding the "un" to the end of Rawad?
That's would be an inflexion suffix. I haven't learned the details yet, but if I understand correctly, they're suffixes added to nouns and adjectives to indicate their role in a sentence. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_nouns_and_adjectives
I'm not really sure why "Rawad" is transcribed that way. I thought the alif (yes, I need to figure out how to use the arabic keyboard with one of those guides) resulted in a long "aa", so I would have transcribed it as "Rawaad".
Güten tag Zia (Zia177448); The Arabic keyboard you mentioned; is that a dedicated Arabic keyboard or a standard keyboard with Arabic software ?
Is it just me who wants to spell it Road or Ruad by looking at زواد ? So how could I spell it right if I don't remember how they have spelled the English name before by looking at the Arabic spellig?
The way I learned it the رَ means "ra" (with the dash it only means one a). And the و in this case would mean "w" instead of "u". Then combine it with the rest and you get Rawad.
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My point was that the second vowel in Rawad should be aa, as we're transliterating ا, not ََ
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When it comes to names we are transliterating. Had we been translatimg this would be something along the lines of "the first in the vanguard." A case can be made for names such as بوب that they should be written as Bob, not Buub, as it's an English name transliterated into Arabic and limited by the available letters. Rawaad, however, is an acceptable spelling that is used, and is consistent with the convention of using aa to represent alif. It should be an acceptable alternative. A name like دوود, which is found in both languages, should be accepted as David or Daoud.
