The word
أُريد
urid
I have been wanting, want, I wantArabicأُريد
Arabiziurid
TranslationI have been wanting, want, I want
TypeVerb
CategoryJobs & work →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
أُريد reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
Type:Shift+H
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
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
05
Letter
د
dāl
d
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
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 — 5 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
- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03V→ر
- 04D→ي
- 05]→د
Composedأُريد