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The word
رَخيص

rakhis

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Arabicرَخيص
Arabizirakhis
Translationcheap
TypeMasculine adjective
CategoryHome
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh

The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.

Type:O
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
ص
ṣād

An emphatic 's' — pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.

Type:W
← 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 — 5 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. 01Vر
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Oخ
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Wص
Composedرَخيص
رَخيص
Practice

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