The word
مَحْمود
ma7mud
MahmoudArabicمَحْمود
Arabizima7mud
TranslationMahmoud
TypeMasculine proper noun
CategoryFamily →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
مَحْمود 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
م
mīm
m
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
Type:L
05
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū
A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:,
06
Letter
د
dāl
d
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Type:]
← 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 — 7 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
- 05L→م
- 06,→و
- 07]→د
Composedمَحْمود