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The word
أُسْتاذة

ustadha

a professor, professor, as a professor
Arabicأُسْتاذة
Arabiziustadha
Translationa professor, professor, as a professor
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

أُسْتاذة 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
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
04
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

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

Type:J
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
06
Letter
ذ
dhāl
dh

The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.

Type:`
07
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 — 8 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. 01Shift+Hأ
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Sس
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Jت
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07`ذ
  8. 08Mة
Composedأُسْتاذة
أُسْتاذة
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