khalfha
behind herThe word, broken down.
خَلْفها reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
What does khalfha mean in Arabizi?
khalfha is how you write خَلْفها in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “behind her”. 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 descriptions 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 →- 01O→خ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03G→ل
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05T→ف
- 06I→ه
- 07H→ا