madrasa
school, a schoolThe word, broken down.
مَدْرَسة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does madrasa mean in Arabizi?
madrasa is how you write مَدْرَسة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “school, a school”. 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 — 8 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 →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03]→د
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07S→س
- 08M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “school” is madrase (مَدْرَسِة). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear madrase on Tfaddalu →