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The word
مَمْنوعة

mamnu3a

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Arabicمَمْنوعة
Arabizimamnu3a
Translationforbidden
TypeFeminine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مَمْنوعة 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
م
mīm
m

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

Type:L
04
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
05
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
06
Letter
ع
ʿayn
ʿ

A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.

Type:U
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. 03Lم
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Kن
  6. 06,و
  7. 07Uع
  8. 08Mة
Composedمَمْنوعة
مَمْنوعة
Practice

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