akhar
other, anotherThe word, broken down.
آخَر reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A long 'aa': an alif with a wave on top that stretches the vowel.
The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
What does akhar mean in Arabizi?
akhar is how you write آخَر in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “other, another”. 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 — 4 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+N→آ
- 02O→خ
- 03Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 04V→ر
Getting the sounds right.
The first syllable is the tricky one. Hold the "aa" a beat longer than an English "a" — closer to the a in "father", but stretched. The "kh" isn't a "k": let air rasp at the back of your throat without your tongue touching the roof of your mouth. The second syllable, "-ar", is short and unstressed.
Example sentences.
Sentences using آخَر, with diacritics so the rhythm is unambiguous.
Feminine and plural forms.
Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for akhar:
ukhra doesn't look much like akhar on the surface, but they come from the same root. Learn them as a pair.