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The word
جوبا

juba

Juba
Arabicجوبا
Arabizijuba
TranslationJuba
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جوبا 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
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
03
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
← 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 — 4 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. 02,و
  3. 03Fب
  4. 04Hا
Composedجوبا
جوبا
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