iktashafa
to discover, to find out, to uncoverThe word, broken down.
اِكْتَشَفَ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'k'.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
What does iktashafa mean in Arabizi?
iktashafa is how you write اِكْتَشَفَ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to discover, to find out, to uncover”. 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 — 10 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 →- 01H→ا
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03;→ك
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07A→ش
- 08Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 09T→ف
- 10Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
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.