The word
هارْفارْد
harfard
HarvardArabicهارْفارْد
Arabiziharfard
TranslationHarvard
TypeProper noun
CategoryEducation →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
هارْفارْد reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
Type:I
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
04
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
Type:T
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
07
Letter
د
dāl
d
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Type:]
← 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 — 9 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
- 01I→ه
- 02H→ا
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05T→ف
- 06H→ا
- 07V→ر
- 08Shift+X→ـْ
- 09]→د
Composedهارْفارْد