fakiha
fruitThe word, broken down.
فاكِهة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'k'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does fakiha mean in Arabizi?
fakiha is how you write فاكِهة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “fruit”. 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 — 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 food & drink 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 →- 01T→ف
- 02H→ا
- 03;→ك
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05I→ه
- 06M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “fruit” is fawaakeh (فَواكِه). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear fawaakeh on Tfaddalu →