aghna
richerThe word, broken down.
أَغْنى 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 gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
What does aghna mean in Arabizi?
aghna is how you write أَغْنى in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “richer”. 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 — 6 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 jobs & work 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
- 03Y→غ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05K→ن
- 06N→ى