The word
جَبَل
jabal
mountainArabicجَبَل
Arabizijabal
Translationmountain
TypeMasculine noun
CategoryTravel & places →
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.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01[→ج
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03F→ب
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05G→ل
Composedجَبَل