The word
جَوارِب
jawarib
socksLetter by letter
The word, broken down.
جَوارِب 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
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
05
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
06
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
07
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Type:F
← 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
- 04H→ا
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07F→ب
Composedجَوارِب