The word
جُنْدِيّة
jundi
a soldierArabicجُنْدِيّة
Arabizijundi
Translationa soldier
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryFamily →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
جُنْدِيّة 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
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ن
nūn
n
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
Type:K
04
Letter
د
dāl
d
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Type:]
05
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
06
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:D
07
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double
Doubles the letter it sits on — hold the consonant a beat longer.
Type:Shift+`
08
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 — 9 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+E→ـُḍamma
- 03K→ن
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05]→د
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07D→ي
- 08Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 09M→ة
Composedجُنْدِيّة