tadrus
study, studies, she studies, you studyThe word, broken down.
تَدْرُس reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
What does tadrus mean in Arabizi?
tadrus is how you write تَدْرُس in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “study, studies, she studies, you study”. 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 — 7 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 →- 01J→ت
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03]→د
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 07S→س
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “study” is daras (دَرَس). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear daras on Tfaddalu →