fikra
an idea, ideaThe word, broken down.
فِكْرة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'k'.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does fikra mean in Arabizi?
fikra is how you write فِكْرة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “an idea, idea”. 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.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 6 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 travel & places 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 →- 01T→ف
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03;→ك
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06M→ة