The word
أَعْرِف
a3rif
I knowLetter by letter
The word, broken down.
أَعْرِف reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
Type:Shift+H
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ع
ʿayn
ʿ
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
Type:U
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
05
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
06
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
Type:T
← 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
- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07T→ف
Composedأَعْرِف