khudraut
vegetablesThe word, broken down.
خُضْراوات reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
What does khudraut mean in Arabizi?
khudraut is how you write خُضْراوات in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “vegetables”. 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 — 9 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 food & drink 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 →- 01O→خ
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03Q→ض
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06H→ا
- 07,→و
- 08H→ا
- 09J→ت
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “vegetables” is khuDra (خُضْرة). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear khuDra on Tfaddalu →