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The word
جَبَل

jabal

mountain
Arabicجَبَل
Arabizijabal
Translationmountain
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جَبَل reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
ج
jīm
j

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

Type:[
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
05
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.
How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 5 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. 01[ج
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Fب
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05Gل
Composedجَبَل
جَبَل
Practice

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