ukhra
different, other, anotherThe word, broken down.
أُخْرى reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
What does ukhra mean in Arabizi?
ukhra is how you write أُخْرى in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “different, other, another”. 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 — 6 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 →- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03O→خ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06N→ى