istira7a
a breakThe word, broken down.
اِسْتِراحة 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 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does istira7a mean in Arabizi?
istira7a is how you write اِسْتِراحة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “a break”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
For the rest of the chat alphabet, see 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.
It sits in the health & the body 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 →- 01H→ا
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03S→س
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07V→ر
- 08H→ا
- 09P→ح
- 10M→ة