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- "عُمَر ذَكِيّ."
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584
The Arabic word for "smart" begins with the letter "dhaal" not "zaay". The "dh" sounds like the "th" in the word "that". Smart = dhakiyy.
584
Bismaa, the transliteration would be "dhakiyy". You're mixing up the letters "dhaal" and zaay", which look similar. "Zaay" is curved like "raa" the "r" sound but "dhaal" is bent like "daal" the "d" sound.
As for the "shadda", the "w", over the "yaa", the "yaa" is acting as the consonant "y" here and not the vowel "ii". You can see that the short vowel "kasra/i" is under the letter "kaaf/k" to make the "ki" sound to give us "dhakiyy". I hope this explanation has helped.
584
Shivaadh, you typed the letter "zaay" in your comment here, but the letter in the Arabic word "smart" is spelled with the letter "dhaal".
584
To allow "typos" for the name would require the programmers to program in every possible spelling error for every possible spelling of the name Omar. Surely it's easier just to learn that our friend Omar spells his name "Omar" instead of "Omer". Just like all of us, "Omar" likes to have his name spelled the way he spells it himself.
; )
584
In English, we have two sounds for "th"; the "th" in "this" and the "th" in "that". Duolingo uses "dh" to represent the "th" sound in the word "that". You're not "wrong", you're just transliterating your own way. I have seen "TH" used instead of "dh" in some books.