saba7 alkhayr
good morningThe word, broken down.
صَباح اَلْخَيْر reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
An emphatic 's', pronounced with a fuller, deeper mouth.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
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 rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
What does saba7 alkhayr mean in Arabizi?
saba7 alkhayr is how you write صَباح اَلْخَيْر in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “good morning”.
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 — 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 greetings & introductions 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 →- 01W→ص
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03F→ب
- 04H→ا
- 05P→ح
- 06Space→
- 07H→ا
- 08Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 09G→ل
- 10Shift+X→ـْ
- 11O→خ
- 12Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 13D→ي
- 14Shift+X→ـْ
- 15V→ر