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The word
جارَك

jarak

your neighbor
Arabicجارَك
Arabizijarak
Translationyour neighbor
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جارَك 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
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
05
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

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
  1. 01[ج
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05;ك
Composedجارَك
جارَك
Practice

Type جارَك until your fingers know it.

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