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The word
جارَتها

jaratha

her neighbor
Arabicجارَتها
Arabizijaratha
Translationher neighbor
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جارَتها 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
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
06
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h

A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.

Type:I
07
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
← 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 — 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. 01[ج
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05Jت
  6. 06Iه
  7. 07Hا
Composedجارَتها
جارَتها
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