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The word
نارِيّ

nari

fiery, connected to fire
Arabicنارِيّ
Arabizinari
Translationfiery, connected to fire
TypeAdjective
Rootن و ر
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

نارِيّ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ن
nūn
n

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

Type:K
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

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

Type:D
06
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

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

Type:Shift+`
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does nari mean in Arabizi?

nari is how you write نارِيّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “fiery, connected to fire”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

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. 01Kن
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05Dي
  6. 06Shift+`ـّshadda
Composedنارِيّ
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for nari:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentنارِيّnarithe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineنارِيَّةnariyyafor a feminine subject
Pluralنارِيّونnariunfor three or more
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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.