The word
بائِع
ba'i3
vendorArabicبائِع
Arabiziba'i3
Translationvendor
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryFood & drink →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
بائِع reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Type:F
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
03
Letter
ئ
hamza on yāʾ
ʾ
A glottal stop carried on a dotless yāʾ.
Type:Z
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ع
ʿayn
ʿ
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
Type:U
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
How to type it
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 5 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01F→ب
- 02H→ا
- 03Z→ئ
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05U→ع
Composedبائِع