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The word
بالِغ

baligh

extensive, pubescent, far-reaching
Arabicبالِغ
Arabizibaligh
Translationextensive, pubescent, far-reaching
TypeAdjective
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

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

Type:F
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
03
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
04
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
05
Letter
غ
ghayn
gh

A gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.

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

What does baligh mean in Arabizi?

baligh is how you write بالِغ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “extensive, pubescent, far-reaching”. 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 — 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. 01Fب
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Gل
  4. 04Shift+Aـِkasra
  5. 05Yغ
Composedبالِغ
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

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

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentبالِغbalighthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineبالِغةbalighafor a feminine subject
Pluralبالِغونbalighunfor three or more
بالِغ
Practice

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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.