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The word
مَساءً

masa'an

in the evening
Arabicمَساءً
Arabizimasa'an
Translationin the evening
TypeAdverb
CategoryHobbies
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مَساءً 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
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
05
Letter
ء
hamza
ʾ

A glottal stop — the catch in the middle of 'uh-oh'.

Type:X
06
Diacritic
ـً
tanwīn fatḥ
an

Adds an '-an' ending — two slanted strokes above.

Type:Shift+W
← 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 — 6 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. 03Sس
  4. 04Hا
  5. 05Xء
  6. 06Shift+Wـًtanwīn fatḥ
Composedمَساءً
مَساءً
Practice

Type مَساءً until your fingers know it.

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