7ummusan
hummus, chickpeasThe word, broken down.
حُمُّصاً 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 short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
An emphatic 's', pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Adds an '-an' ending (two slanted strokes above).
What does 7ummusan mean in Arabizi?
7ummusan is how you write حُمُّصاً in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “hummus, chickpeas”.
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 — 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 →- 01P→ح
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03L→م
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 06W→ص
- 07H→ا
- 08Shift+W→ـًtanwīn fatḥ