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The word
خَبّازة

khabbaza

a baker
Arabicخَبّازة
Arabizikhabbaza
Translationa baker
TypeFeminine noun
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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Oخ
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Fب
  4. 04Shift+`ـّshadda
  5. 05Hا
  6. 06.ز
  7. 07Mة
Composedخَبّازة
خَبّازة
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