The word
أَهْلاً
ahlan
helloArabicأَهْلاً
Arabiziahlan
Translationhello
TypeAdverb
CategoryGreetings & introductions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
أَهْلاً 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
ه
hāʾ
h
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
Type:I
04
Letter
ل
lām
l
A plain 'l' — a tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
Type:G
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
- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03I→ه
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05G→ل
- 06H→ا
- 07Shift+W→ـًtanwīn fatḥ
Composedأَهْلاً