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The word
فَسَّرَ

fassara

to interpret, to clarify, explain
Arabicفَسَّرَ
Arabizifassara
Translationto interpret, to clarify, explain
TypeVerb
Rootف س ر
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.

Type:T
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
س
sīn
s

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

Type:S
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
05
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
06
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
07
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

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

What does fassara mean in Arabizi?

fassara is how you write فَسَّرَ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to interpret, to clarify, explain”. 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.

Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.

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Sequence
  1. 01Tف
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Sس
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05Shift+`ـّshadda
  6. 06Vر
  7. 07Shift+Qـَfatḥa
Composedفَسَّرَ
فَسَّرَ
Practice

Type فَسَّرَ until your fingers know it.

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.