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The word
مُوَظَّفة

muzzafa

employee, an employee
Arabicمُوَظَّفة
Arabizimuzzafa
Translationemployee, an employee
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryFamily
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مُوَظَّفة 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
و
wāw
w / ū

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

Type:,
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
05
Letter
ظ
ẓāʾ

An emphatic 'dh' — the deep cousin of dhāl.

Type:/
06
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on — hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
07
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
08
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.

Type:T
09
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 — 9 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
  1. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03,و
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05/ظ
  6. 06Shift+`ـّshadda
  7. 07Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  8. 08Tف
  9. 09Mة
Composedمُوَظَّفة
مُوَظَّفة
Practice

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