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The word
أَنْشِطة

anshita

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Arabicأَنْشِطة
Arabizianshita
Translationactivities
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أَنْشِطة 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
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
04
Letter
ش
shīn
sh

The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.

Type:A
05
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
06
Letter
ط
ṭāʾ

An emphatic 't' — heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.

Type:'
07
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.

Type:M
← 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 — 8 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. 03Kن
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Aش
  6. 06Shift+Aـِkasra
  7. 07'ط
  8. 08Mة
Composedأَنْشِطة
أَنْشِطة
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