arabictyper
The word
مُشارِك

musharik

participant
Arabicمُشارِك
Arabizimusharik
Translationparticipant
TypeNoun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مُشارِك 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
ش
shīn
sh

The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.

Type:A
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
05
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
06
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
07
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

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

What does musharik mean in Arabizi?

musharik is how you write مُشارِك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “participant”. 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 — 7 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. 03Aش
  4. 04Hا
  5. 05Vر
  6. 06Shift+Aـِkasra
  7. 07;ك
Composedمُشارِك
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

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

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentمُشارِكmusharikthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineمُشارِكةmusharikafor a feminine subject
Pluralمُشارِكونmusharikunfor three or more
مُشارِك
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.