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The word
أَرْتاح

arta7

I relax, I rest
Arabicأَرْتاح
Arabiziarta7
TranslationI relax, I rest
TypeVerb
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أَرْتاح 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
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
04
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
06
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

A breathy h from deep in the throat — heavier than an English 'h'.

Type:P
← 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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Shift+Hأ
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Jت
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Pح
Composedأَرْتاح
أَرْتاح
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