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The word
امْرَأة

amraa

woman, a woman
Arabicامْرَأة
Arabiziamraa
Translationwoman, a woman
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

امْرَأة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
02
Letter
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

Type:L
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
05
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa

A glottal stop carried on an alif.

Type:Shift+H
06
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ'. It 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.
Arabizi

What does amraa mean in Arabizi?

amraa is how you write امْرَأة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “woman, a woman”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

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.

It sits in the descriptions lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.

Practice typing this word →
Sequence
  1. 01Hا
  2. 02Lم
  3. 03Shift+Xـْ
  4. 04Vر
  5. 05Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  6. 06Shift+Hأ
  7. 07Mة
Composedامْرَأة
امْرَأة
Practice

Type امْرَأة until your fingers know it.

Or practice it inside the full Descriptions session, one of sixteen sets in our free Arabic typing practice tool.

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