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The word
دُروس

durus

lessons
Arabicدُروس
Arabizidurus
Translationlessons
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryHobbies
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

دُروس 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
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

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

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
04
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
05
Letter
س
sīn
s

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

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

What does durus mean in Arabizi?

durus is how you write دُروس in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “lessons”. 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 hobbies 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. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04,و
  5. 05Sس
Composedدُروس
دُروس
Practice

Type دُروس until your fingers know it.

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

Practice just durusStart the Hobbies set