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The word
يَقْرَأ

yaqraa

he reads
Arabicيَقْرَأ
Arabiziyaqraa
Translationhe reads
TypeMasculine verb
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ق
qāf
q

A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.

Type:R
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa

A glottal stop carried on an alif.

Type:Shift+H
← 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.

Practice typing this word →
Sequence
  1. 01Dي
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Rق
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Vر
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Shift+Hأ
Composedيَقْرَأ
يَقْرَأ
Practice

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