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The word
بوب

bub

Bob
Arabicبوب
Arabizibub
TranslationBob
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

بوب 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
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
03
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 bub mean in Arabizi?

bub is how you write بوب in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Bob”. 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 — 3 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 the alphabet 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 →
Sequence
  1. 01Fب
  2. 02,و
  3. 03Fب
Composedبوب
بوب
Practice

Type بوب until your fingers know it.

Or practice it inside the full The alphabet session, one of sixteen sets in our free Arabic typing practice tool.

Practice just bubStart the The alphabet set