The word
نَظيفة
nazifa
cleanArabicنَظيفة
Arabizinazifa
Translationclean
TypeFeminine adjective
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
نَظيفة 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
ظ
ẓāʾ
ẓ
An emphatic 'dh' — the deep cousin of dhāl.
Type:/
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
05
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
Type:T
06
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 — 6 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
- 01K→ن
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03/→ظ
- 04D→ي
- 05T→ف
- 06M→ة
Composedنَظيفة