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The word
قَرْيَتِك

qaryatik

your village, your town
Arabicقَرْيَتِك
Arabiziqaryatik
Translationyour village, your town
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ق
qāf
q

A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.

Type:R
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
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

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

Type:D
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
07
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
08
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

Type:;
← 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 — 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 →
Sequence
  1. 01Rق
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Dي
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Jت
  8. 08Shift+Aـِkasra
  9. 09;ك
Composedقَرْيَتِك
قَرْيَتِك
Practice

Type قَرْيَتِك until your fingers know it.

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