The word
مَساءً
masa'an
in the eveningArabicمَساءً
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
- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03S→س
- 04H→ا
- 05X→ء
- 06Shift+W→ـًtanwīn fatḥ
Composedمَساءً