kibba
kibbehThe word, broken down.
كِبّة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'k'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does kibba mean in Arabizi?
kibba is how you write كِبّة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “kibbeh”. 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 — 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 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 →- 01;→ك
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03F→ب
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05M→ة