The word
أَخْبار
akhbar
newsArabicأَخْبار
Arabiziakhbar
Translationnews
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryGreetings & introductions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
أَخْبار 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
خ
khāʾ
kh
The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
Type:O
04
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Type:F
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
← 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
- 03O→خ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05F→ب
- 06H→ا
- 07V→ر
Composedأَخْبار
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