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The word
لُبْنانِيّة

lubnani

Lebanese
Arabicلُبْنانِيّة
Arabizilubnani
TranslationLebanese
TypeFeminine adjective
CategoryFamily
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

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

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
04
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
06
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
07
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
08
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
09
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
10
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.

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

What does lubnani mean in Arabizi?

lubnani is how you write لُبْنانِيّة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Lebanese”. 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 — 11 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 family 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. 01Gل
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Fب
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Kن
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Kن
  8. 08Shift+Aـِkasra
  9. 09Dي
  10. 10Shift+`ـّshadda
  11. 11Mة
Composedلُبْنانِيّة
لُبْنانِيّة
Practice

Type لُبْنانِيّة until your fingers know it.

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

Practice just lubnaniStart the Family set