muzzafa
employee, an employeeThe word, broken down.
مُوَظَّفة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
An emphatic 'dh' — the deep cousin of dhāl.
Doubles the letter it sits on — hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
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 →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03,→و
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05/→ظ
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08T→ف
- 09M→ة