The word
اِمْرَأة
imraa
a womanArabicاِمْرَأة
Arabiziimraa
Translationa woman
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryDescriptions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
اِمْرَأة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
م
mīm
m
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
Type:L
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
Type:Shift+H
07
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a
The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
Type:M
← 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 — 8 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
- 01H→ا
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03L→م
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07Shift+H→أ
- 08M→ة
Composedاِمْرَأة