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The word
مُناسِب

munasib

appropriate, suitable, fitting
Arabicمُناسِب
Arabizimunasib
Translationappropriate, suitable, fitting
TypeAdjective
Rootن س ب
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مُناسِب reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

Type:L
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop 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
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
05
Letter
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
06
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
07
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

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

Type:F
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does munasib mean in Arabizi?

munasib is how you write مُناسِب in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “appropriate, suitable, fitting”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

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. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Kن
  4. 04Hا
  5. 05Sس
  6. 06Shift+Aـِkasra
  7. 07Fب
Composedمُناسِب
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for munasib:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentمُناسِبmunasibthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineمُناسِبةmunasibafor a feminine subject
Pluralمُناسِبونmunasibunfor three or more
مُناسِب
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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.