The word
خَبّازة
khabbaza
a bakerArabicخَبّازة
Arabizikhabbaza
Translationa baker
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryJobs & work →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
خَبّازة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh
The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
Type:O
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Type:F
04
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double
Doubles the letter it sits on — hold the consonant a beat longer.
Type:Shift+`
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Letter
ز
zāy
z
A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.
Type:.
07
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 — 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
- 01O→خ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03F→ب
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05H→ا
- 06.→ز
- 07M→ة
Composedخَبّازة