laysa 3indi
I do not haveThe word, broken down.
لَيْسَ عِنْدي 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 short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
What does laysa 3indi mean in Arabizi?
laysa 3indi is how you write لَيْسَ عِنْدي in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “I do not have”.
The 3 stands for ع (ayn): a throaty sound. No clean English equivalent. 3 is a mirrored ع.
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 — 13 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 clothes 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
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03D→ي
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05S→س
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07Space→
- 08U→ع
- 09Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 10K→ن
- 11Shift+X→ـْ
- 12]→د
- 13D→ي