The word
مَحْفَظة
ma7faza
walletArabicمَحْفَظة
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
ḥ
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
ẓ
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
- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05T→ف
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07/→ظ
- 08M→ة
Composedمَحْفَظة