ghali
expensiveThe word, broken down.
غالي reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
What does ghali mean in Arabizi?
ghali is how you write غالي in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “expensive”. 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 — 4 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 →- 01Y→غ
- 02H→ا
- 03G→ل
- 04D→ي
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “expensive” is ghaali (غالِي). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear ghaali on Tfaddalu →