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The word
لِلْغايَة

lilghaya

extremely, very
Arabicلِلْغايَة
Arabizililghaya
Translationextremely, very
TypeParticle
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ل
lām
l

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

Type:G
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

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

Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ل
lām
l

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

Type:G
04
Letter
غ
ghayn
gh

A gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.

Type:Y
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
06
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

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

Type:D
07
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
08
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.

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

What does lilghaya mean in Arabizi?

lilghaya is how you write لِلْغايَة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “extremely, very”. 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 — 9 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. 01Gل
  2. 02Shift+Aـِkasra
  3. 03Gل
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Yغ
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Dي
  8. 08Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  9. 09Mة
Composedلِلْغايَة
لِلْغايَة
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.