nabidh
cast-off, wine, discardedThe word, broken down.
نَبيذ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.
What does nabidh mean in Arabizi?
nabidh is how you write نَبيذ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “cast-off, wine, discarded”. 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.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01K→ن
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03F→ب
- 04D→ي
- 05`→ذ
Feminine and plural forms.
Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for nabidh:
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.