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The word
أَدْخُل

adkhul

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Arabicأَدْخُل
Arabiziadkhul
TranslationI enter
TypeVerb
CategoryHome
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أَدْخُل 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
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
04
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh

The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.

Type:O
05
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
06
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l' — a tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
← 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
  1. 01Shift+Hأ
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03]د
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Oخ
  6. 06Shift+Eـُḍamma
  7. 07Gل
Composedأَدْخُل
أَدْخُل
Practice

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