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The word
مَشْغول

mashghul

busy
Arabicمَشْغول
Arabizimashghul
Translationbusy
TypeMasculine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مَشْغول 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
ش
shīn
sh

The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.

Type:A
04
Letter
غ
ghayn
gh

A gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.

Type:Y
05
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

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

Type:,
06
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l' — a tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
← 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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Aش
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Yغ
  6. 06,و
  7. 07Gل
Composedمَشْغول
مَشْغول
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