"Peru and Cuba"

Translation: بيرو وَكوبا

[Smilepeople]

If i look at the word peru i see an b - ii - r - uu. I thought the 2 dots under indicates an ii sound, can anyone explain what im seeing wrong here?

[NawshinZihan]

You are right. It's actually written Biiruu. Because there is no letter for the sound 'P' in Arabic. Thus this name of a country is spelled like this. And when it's used in a sentence the Arabic people understand that this is reffered to the country 'Peru' and pronounce it like that. But if it weren't a name it definitely would have pronounced as Biiruu.

[Ivi1Q84]

They actually pronounce the word "beyruu"

[geometry667721]

As I learned it: there is no letter E in Arabic, so transliterations of words with e are written with the equivalents for either a/aa or i/ii.

[benton.1]

I'm making an educated guess that perhaps when fully voweled, the first letter "baa", which is a "stand-in" for the letter "p", would have a fatHa over it making the "a/e" sound, which when combined with the "ii" sound of the letter/vowel "yaa" would make the "ai" sound equaling "Peru" - the European pronunciation, not the English pronunciation. p-ai -r-uu or pe -ii -r-uu

[Cypher922476]

The 'baa' can't have a fatHa on it, though. Any short vowel followed by a long vowel HAS to match the long vowel. So it could start with 'bi' but not 'ba', since the long vowel is 'ii'.

[kamran105752]

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[CKPNair]

Is Arabi mostly nonarbic pronouns? Useful words for common things should be there.