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The word
إِنْجيل

injil

the Gospel, the evangel, the New Testament
Arabicإِنْجيل
Arabiziinjil
Translationthe Gospel, the evangel, the New Testament
TypeNoun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

إِنْجيل reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
إ
hamza under alif
ʾi

A glottal stop carried under an alif, with a short 'i'.

Type:Shift+Y
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ن
nūn
n

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

Type:K
04
Letter
ج
jīm
j

A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.

Type:[
05
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

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

Type:D
06
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does injil mean in Arabizi?

injil is how you write إِنْجيل in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “the Gospel, the evangel, the New Testament”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

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. 01Shift+Yإ
  2. 02Shift+Aـِkasra
  3. 03Kن
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05[ج
  6. 06Dي
  7. 07Gل
Composedإِنْجيل
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for injil:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentإِنْجيلinjilthe base form, for one
Pluralأَناجيلanajilfor three or more
إِنْجيل
Practice

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.