mihna
a professionThe word, broken down.
مِهْنة 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 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does mihna mean in Arabizi?
mihna is how you write مِهْنة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “a profession”. 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 — 6 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 jobs & work 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+A→ـِkasra
- 03I→ه
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05K→ن
- 06M→ة