7adir
present, the present tense, settledThe word, broken down.
حاضِر reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
What does 7adir mean in Arabizi?
7adir is how you write حاضِر in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “present, the present tense, settled”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
For the rest of the chat alphabet, see 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 →- 01P→ح
- 02H→ا
- 03Q→ض
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05V→ر
Feminine and plural forms.
Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for 7adir:
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.