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The word
إِبْراهيم

ibrahim

Ibrahim
Arabicإِبْراهيم
Arabiziibrahim
TranslationIbrahim
TypeMasculine proper noun
CategoryFamily
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
إ
hamza under alif
ʾi

A glottal stop carried under an alif, with a short 'i'.

Type:Shift+Y
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
06
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h

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

Type:I
07
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
08
Letter
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

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

What does ibrahim mean in Arabizi?

ibrahim is how you write إِبْراهيم in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Ibrahim”. 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 family 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. 01Shift+Yإ
  2. 02Shift+Aـِkasra
  3. 03Fب
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Vر
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Iه
  8. 08Dي
  9. 09Lم
Composedإِبْراهيم
إِبْراهيم
Practice

Type إِبْراهيم until your fingers know it.

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

Practice just ibrahimStart the Family set