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The word
نَبيل

nabil

noble, of noble lineage, excellent
Arabicنَبيل
Arabizinabil
Translationnoble, of noble lineage, excellent
TypeAdjective
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ن
nūn
n

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

Type:K
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

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

Type:F
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

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

Type:D
05
Letter
ل
lām
l

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

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

What does nabil mean in Arabizi?

nabil is how you write نَبيل in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “noble, of noble lineage, excellent”. 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 — 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. 01Kن
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Fب
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05Gل
Composedنَبيل
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

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

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentنَبيلnabilthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineنَبيلةnabilafor a feminine subject
Pluralنُبَلاءnubala'for three or more
نَبيل
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.