The word
جَوْعان
jaw3an
hungryArabicجَوْعان
Arabizijaw3an
Translationhungry
TypeMasculine adjective
CategoryGreetings & introductions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
جَوْعان 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
و
wāw
w / ū
A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:,
04
Letter
ع
ʿayn
ʿ
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
Type:U
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Letter
ن
nūn
n
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
Type:K
← 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.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01[→ج
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03,→و
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05U→ع
- 06H→ا
- 07K→ن
Composedجَوْعان