The word
جاهِز
jahiz
readyArabicجاهِز
Arabizijahiz
Translationready
TypeMasculine adjective
CategoryDaily routine →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
جاهِز 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
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
03
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
Type:I
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
ز
zāy
z
A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.
Type:.
← 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
- 02H→ا
- 03I→ه
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05.→ز
Composedجاهِز