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The word
مَحْفَظة

ma7faza

wallet
Arabicمَحْفَظة
Arabizima7faza
Translationwallet
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryHome
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مَحْفَظة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

Type:L
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

A breathy h from deep in the throat — heavier than an English 'h'.

Type:P
04
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.

Type:T
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
ظ
ẓāʾ

An emphatic 'dh' — the deep cousin of dhāl.

Type:/
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
  1. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Pح
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Tف
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07/ظ
  8. 08Mة
Composedمَحْفَظة
مَحْفَظة
Practice

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