bijanib
next toThe word, broken down.
بِجانِب reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
What does bijanib mean in Arabizi?
bijanib is how you write بِجانِب in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “next to”. 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.
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.
It sits in the descriptions lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.
Practice typing this word →- 01F→ب
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03[→ج
- 04H→ا
- 05K→ن
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07F→ب
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “next to” is jamb (جَنْب). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear jamb on Tfaddalu →