fustan
a dressThe word, broken down.
فُسْتان 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 short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
What does fustan mean in Arabizi?
fustan is how you write فُسْتان in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “a dress”. 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 clothes 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
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03S→س
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06H→ا
- 07K→ن
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “dress” is fustaan (فُسْتان). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear fustaan on Tfaddalu →