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The word
دُروس

durus

lessons
Arabicدُروس
Arabizidurus
Translationlessons
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryHobbies
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

دُروس 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
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
04
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

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

Type:,
05
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.

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Sequence
  1. 01]د
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04,و
  5. 05Sس
Composedدُروس
دُروس
Practice

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