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The word
مُديرة

mudira

director, a director
Arabicمُديرة
Arabizimudira
Translationdirector, a director
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مُديرة 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
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
05
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
06
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 — 6 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. 03]د
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Vر
  6. 06Mة
Composedمُديرة
مُديرة
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