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The word
جاكيت

jakit

jacket, a jacket
Arabicجاكيت
Arabizijakit
Translationjacket, a jacket
TypeMasculine noun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ج
jīm
j

A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.

Type:[
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
03
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

Type:;
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
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

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

What does jakit mean in Arabizi?

jakit is how you write جاكيت in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “jacket, a jacket”. 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.

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. 01[ج
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03;ك
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Jت
Composedجاكيت
جاكيت
Practice

Type جاكيت until your fingers know it.

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