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The word
اِنْفَصَلَ

infasala

to detach, come away, to be separated
Arabicاِنْفَصَلَ
Arabiziinfasala
Translationto detach, come away, to be separated
TypeVerb
Rootف ص ل
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ن
nūn
n

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

Type:K
04
Letter
ف
fāʾ
f

A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.

Type:T
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
ص
ṣād

An emphatic 's', pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.

Type:W
07
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
08
Letter
ل
lām
l

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

Type:G
09
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

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

What does infasala mean in Arabizi?

infasala is how you write اِنْفَصَلَ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to detach, come away, to be separated”. 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 — 10 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. 01Hا
  2. 02Shift+Aـِkasra
  3. 03Kن
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Tف
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Wص
  8. 08Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  9. 09Gل
  10. 10Shift+Qـَfatḥa
Composedاِنْفَصَلَ
اِنْفَصَلَ
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.