The word
جَزيرة
jazira
islandArabicجَزيرة
Arabizijazira
Translationisland
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
جَزيرة 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
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
05
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
06
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a
The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
Type:M
← 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 — 6 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.→ز
- 04D→ي
- 05V→ر
- 06M→ة
Composedجَزيرة