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The word
أَمْس

ams

yesterday
Arabicأَمْس
Arabiziams
Translationyesterday
TypeAdverb
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أَمْس 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
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
← 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 — 5 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. 03Lم
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Sس
Composedأَمْس
أَمْس
Practice

Type أَمْس until your fingers know it.

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