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The word
جارَتهُ

jarathu

his neighbor
Arabicجارَتهُ
Arabizijarathu
Translationhis neighbor
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جارَتهُ 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
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
← 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. 07Shift+Eـُḍamma
Composedجارَتهُ
جارَتهُ
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