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The word
بَنَدورة

banadura

some tomatoes, tomatoes
Arabicبَنَدورة
Arabizibanadura
Translationsome tomatoes, tomatoes
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

بَنَدورة 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
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ن
nūn
n

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

Type:K
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
05
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
06
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
07
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
08
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.

Type:M
← 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 — 8 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
  1. 01Fب
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Kن
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05]د
  6. 06,و
  7. 07Vر
  8. 08Mة
Composedبَنَدورة
بَنَدورة
Practice

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