The word
خَفيف
khafif
lightArabicخَفيف
Arabizikhafif
Translationlight
TypeMasculine adjective
CategoryWeather →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
خَفيف reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh
The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
Type:O
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
Type:T
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
05
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
Type:T
← 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.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01O→خ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03T→ف
- 04D→ي
- 05T→ف
Composedخَفيف