salamtak
get betterThe word, broken down.
سَلامتَك reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
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 plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'k'.
What does salamtak mean in Arabizi?
salamtak is how you write سَلامتَك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “get better”. 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 — 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 health & the body 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 →- 01S→س
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03G→ل
- 04H→ا
- 05L→م
- 06J→ت
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08;→ك