The word
رُطوبة
rutuba
humidityArabicرُطوبة
Arabizirutuba
Translationhumidity
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryWeather →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
رُطوبة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r
A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.
Type:V
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ط
ṭāʾ
ṭ
An emphatic 't' — heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.
Type:'
04
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū
A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:,
05
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Type:F
06
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 — 6 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
- 01V→ر
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03'→ط
- 04,→و
- 05F→ب
- 06M→ة
Composedرُطوبة