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The word
شَرِكة

sharika

a company, company
Arabicشَرِكة
Arabizisharika
Translationa company, company
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ش
shīn
sh

The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.

Type:A
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
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

Type:;
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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Aش
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05;ك
  6. 06Mة
Composedشَرِكة
شَرِكة
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