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The word
نار

nar

fire
Arabicنار
Arabizinar
Translationfire
TypeNoun
Rootن و ر
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

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

What does nar mean in Arabizi?

nar is how you write نار in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “fire”. 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 — 3 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. 01Kن
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Vر
Composedنار
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

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

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentنارnarthe base form, for one
Pluralنيرانniranfor three or more
نار
Practice

Type نار until your fingers know it.

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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.