The word
مَشْهورة
mashhura
known, famousArabicمَشْهورة
Arabizimashhura
Translationknown, famous
TypeFeminine adjective
CategoryEducation →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
مَشْهورة 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
ه
hāʾ
h
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
Type:I
05
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū
A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:,
06
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
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
- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03A→ش
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05I→ه
- 06,→و
- 07V→ر
- 08M→ة
Composedمَشْهورة