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The word
أَخْضَر

akhdar

green, verdant
Arabicأَخْضَر
Arabiziakhdar
Translationgreen, verdant
TypeAdjective
Rootخ ض ر
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أَخْضَر reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

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', written as a small stroke 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
ض
ḍād

An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.

Type:Q
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
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.
Arabizi

What does akhdar mean in Arabizi?

akhdar is how you write أَخْضَر in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “green, verdant”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Shift+Hأ
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Oخ
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Qض
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Vر
Composedأَخْضَر
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for akhdar:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentأَخْضَرakhdarthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineخَضْراءkhadra'for a feminine subject
Pluralخُضْرkhudrfor three or more
أَخْضَر
Practice

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.