How our transliteration works
The Arabic on this site can be shown a second time in Latin or Bengali letters. This page says what those letters mean, where the scheme came from, and — just as importantly — what it cannot do.
What it is not
Transliteration is a reading aid, not a pronunciation guide. No writing system outside Arabic can represent Quranic pronunciation exactly, and reciting from these letters will not be accurate. Length, the letters that have no equivalent, and the rules of tajwīd are all approximated or lost. Learn to recite from a qualified teacher and from listening, and use this only to find your place in the Arabic.
The Arabic is never changed
The Quranic Arabic comes from a verified, locked source and is checked against a stored checksum before it is displayed. Nothing on this page alters it. Where a transliteration cannot represent something, the transliteration gives way — never the Arabic.
How it is produced
Both scripts are generated from the verified Arabic itself by a fixed rule set — never from an English or Bengali translation, and never by AI. The same input always produces the same output, so anything wrong is a rule that can be found and corrected rather than a one-off.
Bengali letters
The scheme printed in ছহীহ্ নূরানী কোরআন শরীফ, applied to the verified text rather than copied from the book. Its tajwīd conventions were settled by checking every ayah against the recitation.
Latin letters
ALA-LC romanization, with one departure: the article is written as it is recited (ar-raḥmān, not al-raḥmān). So it follows ALA-LC rather than being it.
The key
Every example below is a real word from a real ayah, with the transliteration produced by the same rules the reading pages use. Nothing here is typed by hand, so this page cannot drift from what you actually see.
Bengali letters
| Arabic letter | In a word | Shown as | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| ق | ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ | আলমুস্তাক্বীম্ | 1:6 |
| ك | إِيَّاكَ | 'ইয়্যা-ক্ | 1:5 |
| ج | جُوعٍ | জ্বূ' | 106:4 |
| ظ | ظُلُمَـٰتٍ | জুলুমা-ত্ | 2:17 |
| ذ | ٱلَّذِى | আল্লায্ | 96:1 |
| ث | ٱلْكَوْثَرَ | আলকাওছার | 108:1 |
| ص | صَلَّىٰٓ | ছোয়াল্লা- | 96:10 |
| ض | ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ | আলমাগ্দূব্ | 1:7 |
| ط | خَاطِئَةٍ | খা-ত্বি'আহ্ | 96:16 |
| ح | ٱلْحَمْدُ | আলহাম্দ্ | 1:2 |
| خ | خَلَقَ | খালাক | 96:1 |
| غ | غَيْرِ | গাইর | 1:7 |
| ش | ٱلشِّتَآءِ | আশ্শিতা-' | 106:2 |
| ع | عَلَقٍ | 'আলাক | 96:2 |
| ء | ٱقْرَأْ | ইকরা' | 96:1 |
Latin letters
| Arabic letter | In a word | Shown as | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| ح | ٱلْحَمْدُ | al-ḥamd | 1:2 |
| ص | صَلَّىٰٓ | ṣallā | 96:10 |
| ض | ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ | al-maghḍūb | 1:7 |
| ط | خَاطِئَةٍ | khāṭiʼah | 96:16 |
| ظ | ظُلُمَـٰتٍ | ẓulumāt | 2:17 |
| ث | ٱلْكَوْثَرَ | al-kawthar | 108:1 |
| ذ | ٱلَّذِى | alladhī | 96:1 |
| ش | ٱلشِّتَآءِ | ash-shitāʼ | 106:2 |
| خ | خَلَقَ | khalaq | 96:1 |
| غ | غَيْرِ | ghayr | 1:7 |
| ع | عَلَقٍ | ʻalaq | 96:2 |
| ء | ٱقْرَأْ | iqraʼ | 96:1 |
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