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The word
فُرْصة

fursa

chance, opportunity
Arabicفُرْصة
Arabizifursa
Translationchance, opportunity
TypeNoun
Rootف ر ص
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

فُرْصة 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
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
ص
ṣād

An emphatic 's', pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.

Type:W
05
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 fursa mean in Arabizi?

fursa is how you write فُرْصة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “chance, opportunity”. 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 — 6 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+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Wص
  6. 06Mة
Composedفُرْصة
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for fursa:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentفُرْصةfursathe base form, for one
Pluralفُرَصfurasfor three or more
فُرْصة
Practice

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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.