tashtari
you buy, she buys, buysThe word, broken down.
تَشْتَري reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
What does tashtari mean in Arabizi?
tashtari is how you write تَشْتَري in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “you buy, she buys, buys”. 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 — 8 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 food & drink 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 →- 01J→ت
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03A→ش
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07V→ر
- 08D→ي
Getting the sounds right.
TASH-ta-ri, three syllables with the weight up front. The sh is one sound, ش, and the t that follows starts the next syllable, so it's tash, then ta. The word is spelled with a long ي at the end, but don't lean on it.
Example sentences.
Sentences using تَشْتَري, with diacritics so the rhythm is unambiguous.
The present tense.
An Arabic verb changes with whoever is doing it. The row for this page is marked.
tashtari means “you buy” to a man and also “she buys”. The dictionary lists the verb under ishtara (اِشْتَرى), “he bought”. Its opposite is ba3a, “he sold”.