The word
عَشاء
3asha'
a dinnerArabicعَشاء
Arabizi3asha'
Translationa dinner
TypeMasculine
CategoryDaily routine →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
عَشاء 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
ش
shīn
sh
The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.
Type:A
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
05
Letter
ء
hamza
ʾ
A glottal stop — the catch in the middle of 'uh-oh'.
Type:X
← 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 — 5 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
- 03A→ش
- 04H→ا
- 05X→ء
Composedعَشاء