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The word
هارْفارْد

harfard

Harvard
Arabicهارْفارْد
Arabiziharfard
TranslationHarvard
TypeProper noun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h

A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.

Type:I
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
04
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

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

Type:T
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
06
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
07
Letter
د
dāl
d

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

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

What does harfard mean in Arabizi?

harfard is how you write هارْفارْد in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Harvard”. 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 — 9 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 education 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. 01Iه
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Tف
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Vر
  8. 08Shift+Xـْ
  9. 09]د
Composedهارْفارْد
هارْفارْد
Practice

Type هارْفارْد until your fingers know it.

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

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