Onion in Arabic: بصل
🧅 بَصَل
بصل means “onion”. It has the letter Saad (ص) in the middle.
Learn to write بصل (onion), an Arabic word with Saad (ص) in the middle. Picture, spelling and tracing rows. Free PDF.
⬇ Download free PDFWhat's on the sheet
- A picture 🧅 and بَصَل with vowel marks
- Spelling, letter by letter: ب - ص - ل
- Five tracing rows, then lines to write alone
How to use it
- Print on A4 (US Letter works too with "fit to page").
- Say the letter or word aloud together.
- Start at the orange dot and follow the arrow along the single dotted line, with a finger first, then a pencil. Arrows guide the first two tries, then fade away.
- Celebrate every finished row and colour the stars at the top.
About the letter: ص
- Saad (ص) sounds like a heavy, deep 's'; it has no dots.
- It joins the next letter, so it has four forms: ص صـ ـصـ ـص.
- It looks like Daad (ض); the dots tell them apart.
- Also spelled: Saad, Sad.
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What age are they for?
Ages 3–7: preschool, kindergarten (KG1, KG2), reception and Year 1 / Grade 1.
How many forms does Saad have?
Four: ص صـ ـصـ ـص.
How can my child tell ص from ض?
By the dots: ص has no dots; ض has one dot above.

All Saad sheets
Letter forms
Isolated ص
Beginning صـ
Middle ـصـ
End ـص
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