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The word
خارِق

khariq

penetrating, piercing, what violates
Arabicخارِق
Arabizikhariq
Translationpenetrating, piercing, what violates
TypeAdjective
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

خارِق reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh

The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.

Type:O
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
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ق
qāf
q

A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.

Type:R
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does khariq mean in Arabizi?

khariq is how you write خارِق in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “penetrating, piercing, what violates”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

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.

Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.

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Sequence
  1. 01Oخ
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05Rق
Composedخارِق
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for khariq:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentخارِقkhariqthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineخارِقةkhariqafor a feminine subject
Pluralخارِقونkhariqunfor three or more
خارِق
Practice

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.