la a7ad
no oneThe word, broken down.
لا أَحَد reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
What does la a7ad mean in Arabizi?
la a7ad is how you write لا أَحَد in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “no one”.
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 — 8 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 family 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 →- 01G→ل
- 02H→ا
- 03Space→
- 04Shift+H→أ
- 05Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 06P→ح
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08]→د
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “no one” is ma-7ada (ما حَدا). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear ma-7ada on Tfaddalu →