assafar ila
to travel to, traveling toThe word, broken down.
اَلْسَّفَر إِلى reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A glottal stop carried under an alif, with a short 'i'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
What does assafar ila mean in Arabizi?
assafar ila is how you write اَلْسَّفَر إِلى in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to travel to, traveling to”. 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 — 15 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 hobbies 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 →- 01H→ا
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03G→ل
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05S→س
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08T→ف
- 09Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 10V→ر
- 11Space→
- 12Shift+Y→إ
- 13Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 14G→ل
- 15N→ى