lilasaf
unfortunatelyThe word, broken down.
لِلْأَسَف 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 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
What does lilasaf mean in Arabizi?
lilasaf is how you write لِلْأَسَف in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “unfortunately”. 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 — 9 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 travel & places 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+A→ـِkasra
- 03G→ل
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05Shift+H→أ
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07S→س
- 08Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 09T→ف