kursi alqitta
the cat's chairThe word, broken down.
كُرْسي الْقِطّة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'k'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does kursi alqitta mean in Arabizi?
kursi alqitta is how you write كُرْسي الْقِطّة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “the cat's chair”. 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 — 15 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 jobs & work 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 →- 01;→ك
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05S→س
- 06D→ي
- 07Space→
- 08H→ا
- 09G→ل
- 10Shift+X→ـْ
- 11R→ق
- 12Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 13'→ط
- 14Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 15M→ة