The word
كُرْسي
kursi
chairArabicكُرْسي
Arabizikursi
Translationchair
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryJobs & work →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
كُرْسي reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ك
kāf
k
A plain 'k'.
Type:;
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
04
Letter
س
sīn
s
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
Type:S
05
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
← 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 — 6 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
- 01;→ك
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05S→س
- 06D→ي
Composedكُرْسي