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The word
مُرّ

murr

bitter, myrrh, severe
Arabicمُرّ
Arabizimurr
Translationbitter, myrrh, severe
TypeAdjective
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
م
mīm
m

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

Type:L
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
04
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

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

What does murr mean in Arabizi?

murr is how you write مُرّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “bitter, myrrh, severe”. 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 — 4 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.

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Sequence
  1. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+`ـّshadda
Composedمُرّ
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for murr:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentمُرّmurrthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineمُرّةmurrafor a feminine subject
Pluralأَمْرارamrarfor three or more
مُرّ
Practice

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.