labisa
to wear, to put on, to clothe oneselfThe word, broken down.
لَبِسَ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
What does labisa mean in Arabizi?
labisa is how you write لَبِسَ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to wear, to put on, to clothe oneself”. 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 — 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 →- 01G→ل
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03F→ب
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05S→س
- 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.