marra ukhra
againThe word, broken down.
مَرّة أُخْرى reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Doubles the letter it sits on — hold the consonant a beat longer.
The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 12 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 →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05M→ة
- 06Space→
- 07Shift+H→أ
- 08Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 09O→خ
- 10Shift+X→ـْ
- 11V→ر
- 12N→ى