ghanna
to sing, to sing about someone, describe someone in verseThe word, broken down.
غَنّى 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 short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
What does ghanna mean in Arabizi?
ghanna is how you write غَنّى in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to sing, to sing about someone, describe someone in verse”. 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 — 5 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01Y→غ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03K→ن
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05N→ى
The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.