bisabab
because ofThe word, broken down.
بِسَبَب 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 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
What does bisabab mean in Arabizi?
bisabab is how you write بِسَبَب in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “because of”. 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 home 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+A→ـِkasra
- 03S→س
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05F→ب
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07F→ب
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “because of” is 3ashaan (عَشَان). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear 3ashaan on Tfaddalu →