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The word
دُكتور

duktur

physician, a doctor, doctor
Arabicدُكتور
Arabiziduktur
Translationphysician, a doctor, doctor
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

دُكتور reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

Type:;
04
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

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

Type:J
05
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
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.
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. 01]د
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03;ك
  4. 04Jت
  5. 05,و
  6. 06Vر
Composedدُكتور
دُكتور
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