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The word
جَزَر

jazar

carrots
Arabicجَزَر
Arabizijazar
Translationcarrots
TypeMasculine
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جَزَر 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
ز
zāy
z

A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.

Type:.
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
05
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
← 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. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03.ز
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05Vر
Composedجَزَر
جَزَر
Practice

Type جَزَر until your fingers know it.

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