The word
عَفْواً
3afu
you're welcome, excuse meArabicعَفْواً
Arabizi3afu
Translationyou're welcome, excuse me
TypeAdverb
CategoryGreetings & introductions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
عَفْواً reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ع
ʿayn
ʿ
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
Type:U
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
Type:T
04
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū
A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:,
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Diacritic
ـً
tanwīn fatḥ
an
Adds an '-an' ending — two slanted strokes above.
Type:Shift+W
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
How to type it
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 7 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01U→ع
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03T→ف
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05,→و
- 06H→ا
- 07Shift+W→ـًtanwīn fatḥ
Composedعَفْواً