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The word
حَبيب

7abib

beloved, agreeable, sweetheart
Arabicحَبيب
Arabizi7abib
Translationbeloved, agreeable, sweetheart
TypeAdjective
Rootح ب ب
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.

Type:P
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke 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
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
05
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 7abib mean in Arabizi?

7abib is how you write حَبيب in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “beloved, agreeable, sweetheart”.

The number in 7abib
7ح

The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.

For the rest of the chat alphabet, see 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 — 5 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.

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Sequence
  1. 01Pح
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Fب
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Fب
Composedحَبيب
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for 7abib:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentحَبيب7abibthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineحَبيبة7abibafor a feminine subject
Pluralأَحِبّةa7ibbafor three or more
حَبيب
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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.