nafs
sameThe word, broken down.
نَفْس reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
What does nafs mean in Arabizi?
nafs is how you write نَفْس in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “same”. 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 — 5 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 food & drink 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 →- 01K→ن
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03T→ف
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05S→س
Palestinians say this one much like the MSA: nafs. Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear nafs on Tfaddalu →