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The word
مُضْحِكة

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Arabicمُضْحِكة
Arabizimud7ika
Translationfunny
TypeFeminine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مُضْحِكة 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
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ض
ḍād

An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.

Type:Q
04
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

A breathy h from deep in the throat — heavier than an English 'h'.

Type:P
05
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
06
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

Type:;
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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Qض
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Pح
  6. 06Shift+Aـِkasra
  7. 07;ك
  8. 08Mة
Composedمُضْحِكة
مُضْحِكة
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