7arra
hotThe word, broken down.
حارّة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does 7arra mean in Arabizi?
7arra is how you write حارّة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “hot”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
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 — 5 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 weather 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 →- 01P→ح
- 02H→ا
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “hot” is shoob (شوب). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear shoob on Tfaddalu →