The word
شُرْفة
shurfa
a balconyArabicشُرْفة
Arabizishurfa
Translationa balcony
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
شُرْفة 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
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
04
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
Type:T
05
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
- 01A→ش
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05T→ف
- 06M→ة
Composedشُرْفة