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The word
جُرْح

jur7

wound
Arabicجُرْح
Arabizijur7
Translationwound
TypeNoun
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جُرْح 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
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
04
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

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

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

What does jur7 mean in Arabizi?

jur7 is how you write جُرْح in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “wound”.

The number in jur7
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. 01[ج
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Pح
Composedجُرْح
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for jur7:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentجُرْحjur7the base form, for one
Pluralجِراحjira7for three or more
جُرْح
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.