Letter 12 of 28
How Do You Pronounce Sin (س)?
س
Sinسِين
S as in sun.
The sound
The plain English s of sun and sea. Light and hissing.
Keep it thin. Its emphatic sister Sad (ص) is the same hiss said with a full, heavy mouth, and swapping them changes words.
The four written forms
Arabic letters change shape by position, alone, at the start, in the middle, and at the end of a word.
س
Isolated
س
Initial
س
Medial
س
Final
Sin with harakat
The three short vowels: fatha says "a", kasra says "i", damma says "u".
سَ
sa
Fatha · "a"
سِ
si
Kasra · "i"
سُ
su
Damma · "u"
Spot it in the Quran
بِسْمِ
bismi
in the name of
السَّلَامُ
as-salam
the peace
النَّاسُ
an-nas
mankind
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