nihai alusbu3
the weekendThe word, broken down.
نِهاية اَلْأُسْبوع reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
What does nihai alusbu3 mean in Arabizi?
nihai alusbu3 is how you write نِهاية اَلْأُسْبوع in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “the weekend”.
The 3 stands for ع (ayn): a throaty sound. No clean English equivalent. 3 is a mirrored ع.
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 — 18 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
It sits in the hobbies lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.
Practice typing this word →- 01K→ن
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03I→ه
- 04H→ا
- 05D→ي
- 06M→ة
- 07Space→
- 08H→ا
- 09Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 10G→ل
- 11Shift+X→ـْ
- 12Shift+H→أ
- 13Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 14S→س
- 15Shift+X→ـْ
- 16F→ب
- 17,→و
- 18U→ع