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The word
سَريع

sari3

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Arabicسَريع
Arabizisari3
Translationfast
TypeMasculine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
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
Letter
ع
ʿayn
ʿ

A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.

Type:U
← 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. 01Sس
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Uع
Composedسَريع
سَريع
Practice

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