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The word
السَّبْت

assabt

Saturday, the Sabbath, seven-day cycle
Arabicالسَّبْت
Arabiziassabt
TranslationSaturday, the Sabbath, seven-day cycle
TypeNoun
Rootس ب ت
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

السَّبْت reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
02
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
03
Letter
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
04
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
05
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
06
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
07
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does assabt mean in Arabizi?

assabt is how you write السَّبْت in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Saturday, the Sabbath, seven-day cycle”. 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.

How to type it

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.

Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.

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Sequence
  1. 01Hا
  2. 02Gل
  3. 03Sس
  4. 04Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  5. 05Shift+`ـّshadda
  6. 06Fب
  7. 07Shift+Xـْ
  8. 08Jت
Composedالسَّبْت
السَّبْت
Practice

Type السَّبْت until your fingers know it.

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.