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The word
نَعْسانة

na3sana

sleepy
Arabicنَعْسانة
Arabizina3sana
Translationsleepy
TypeMasculine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

نَعْسانة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ع
ʿayn
ʿ

A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.

Type:U
04
Letter
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
06
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
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.

Practice typing this word →
Sequence
  1. 01Kن
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Uع
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Sس
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Kن
  8. 08Mة
Composedنَعْسانة
نَعْسانة
Practice

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