afta7
I openThe word, broken down.
أَفْتَح reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
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 breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
What does afta7 mean in Arabizi?
afta7 is how you write أَفْتَح in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “I open”.
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 — 7 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 home 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 →- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03T→ف
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07P→ح
Palestinians say this one much like the MSA: 'afta7. Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear 'afta7 on Tfaddalu →