The word
سُتْرة
sutra
a jacketArabicسُتْرة
Arabizisutra
Translationa jacket
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryClothes →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
سُتْرة 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
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
Type:J
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
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
- 01S→س
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03J→ت
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06M→ة
Composedسُتْرة