marra ukhra
againThe word, broken down.
مَرّة أُخْرى 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 rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
What does marra ukhra mean in Arabizi?
marra ukhra is how you write مَرّة أُخْرى in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “again”. 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 — 12 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 →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05M→ة
- 06Space→
- 07Shift+H→أ
- 08Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 09O→خ
- 10Shift+X→ـْ
- 11V→ر
- 12N→ى
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “again” is taani (تَانِي). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear taani on Tfaddalu →