The word
غَريبة
ghariba
weirdArabicغَريبة
Arabizighariba
Translationweird
TypeFeminine adjective
CategoryGreetings & introductions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
غَريبة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
غ
ghayn
gh
A gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.
Type:Y
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
05
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Type:F
06
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 — 6 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
- 01Y→غ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03V→ر
- 04D→ي
- 05F→ب
- 06M→ة
Composedغَريبة