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The word
مِصْر

misr

Egypt
Arabicمِصْر
Arabizimisr
TranslationEgypt
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مِصْر 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
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ص
ṣād

An emphatic 's' — pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.

Type:W
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
← 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 — 5 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+Aـِkasra
  3. 03Wص
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Vر
Composedمِصْر
مِصْر
Practice

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