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The word
دينار

dinar

a dinar
Arabicدينار
Arabizidinar
Translationa dinar
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
02
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

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

Type:D
03
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
05
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does dinar mean in Arabizi?

dinar is how you write دينار in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “a dinar”. 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 — 5 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 food & drink 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. 01]د
  2. 02Dي
  3. 03Kن
  4. 04Hا
  5. 05Vر
Composedدينار
دينار
Practice

Type دينار until your fingers know it.

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

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