ba7atha
to search, to look forThe word, broken down.
بَحَثَ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
The 'th' in 'think'. Three dots above the body.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
What does ba7atha mean in Arabizi?
ba7atha is how you write بَحَثَ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to search, to look for”.
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 — 6 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 →- 01F→ب
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05E→ث
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
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.