dawa7i
the suburbsThe word, broken down.
ضَواحي reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
What does dawa7i mean in Arabizi?
dawa7i is how you write ضَواحي in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “the suburbs”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
For the rest of the chat alphabet, see 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 — 6 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 travel & places 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 →- 01Q→ض
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03,→و
- 04H→ا
- 05P→ح
- 06D→ي