mudira
director, a directorThe word, broken down.
مُديرة 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 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does mudira mean in Arabizi?
mudira is how you write مُديرة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “director, a director”. 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+E→ـُḍamma
- 03]→د
- 04D→ي
- 05V→ر
- 06M→ة