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The word
بَيْروت

bayrut

Beirut
Arabicبَيْروت
Arabizibayrut
TranslationBeirut
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

بَيْروت 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
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
04
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
05
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

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

Type:,
06
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
← 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 — 7 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

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Sequence
  1. 01Fب
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Dي
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Vر
  6. 06,و
  7. 07Jت
Composedبَيْروت
بَيْروت
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