The word
بَيْتهُ
baythu
his houseArabicبَيْتهُ
Arabizibaythu
Translationhis house
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryDescriptions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
بَيْتهُ 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
ت
tāʾ
t
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
Type:J
05
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
Type:I
06
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
← 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.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01F→ب
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03D→ي
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06I→ه
- 07Shift+E→ـُḍamma
Composedبَيْتهُ