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The word
تِلْفاز

tilfaz

television
Arabicتِلْفاز
Arabizitilfaz
Translationtelevision
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryHome
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l' — a tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
04
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.

Type:T
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
06
Letter
ز
zāy
z

A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.

Type:.
← 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 — 7 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. 01Jت
  2. 02Shift+Aـِkasra
  3. 03Gل
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Tف
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07.ز
Composedتِلْفاز
تِلْفاز
Practice

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