The word
إِبْراهيم
ibrahim
IbrahimArabicإِبْراهيم
Arabiziibrahim
TranslationIbrahim
TypeMasculine proper noun
CategoryFamily →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
إِبْراهيم reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
إ
hamza under alif
ʾi
A glottal stop carried under an alif, with a short 'i'.
Type:Shift+Y
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Type:F
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
Type:I
07
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
08
Letter
م
mīm
m
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
Type:L
← 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
- 01Shift+Y→إ
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03F→ب
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06H→ا
- 07I→ه
- 08D→ي
- 09L→م
Composedإِبْراهيم