iijarak
your rentThe word, broken down.
إيجارَك reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A glottal stop carried under an alif, with a short 'i'.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'k'.
What does iijarak mean in Arabizi?
iijarak is how you write إيجارَك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “your rent”. 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 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 →- 01Shift+Y→إ
- 02D→ي
- 03[→ج
- 04H→ا
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07;→ك