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The word
نَرى

nara

see, we see
Arabicنَرى
Arabizinara
Translationsee, we see
TypeVerb
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

نَرى 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
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
04
Letter
ى
alif maqṣūra
ā

A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.

Type:N
← 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 — 4 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. 03Vر
  4. 04Nى
Composedنَرى
نَرى
Practice

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