baytha
her houseThe word, broken down.
بَيْتها reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
What does baytha mean in Arabizi?
baytha is how you write بَيْتها in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “her house”. 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 — 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 descriptions 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 →- 01F→ب
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03D→ي
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06I→ه
- 07H→ا