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The word
مُصَوِّرة

musawwira

photographer, a photographer
Arabicمُصَوِّرة
Arabizimusawwira
Translationphotographer, a photographer
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مُصَوِّرة 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
ص
ṣād

An emphatic 's', pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.

Type:W
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
05
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
06
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

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

Type:Shift+`
07
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
08
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
09
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.

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

What does musawwira mean in Arabizi?

musawwira is how you write مُصَوِّرة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “photographer, a photographer”. 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 — 9 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 →
Sequence
  1. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Wص
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05,و
  6. 06Shift+`ـّshadda
  7. 07Shift+Aـِkasra
  8. 08Vر
  9. 09Mة
Composedمُصَوِّرة
مُصَوِّرة
Practice

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