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The word
أَمامي

amami

in front of me
Arabicأَمامي
Arabiziamami
Translationin front of me
TypeWord
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أَمامي 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
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

Type:L
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
05
Letter
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

Type:L
06
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
← 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 — 6 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. 03Lم
  4. 04Hا
  5. 05Lم
  6. 06Dي
Composedأَمامي
أَمامي
Practice

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