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The word
شَنْطَتي

shantati

my bag
Arabicشَنْطَتي
Arabizishantati
Translationmy bag
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryHome
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

شَنْطَتي reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ش
shīn
sh

The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.

Type:A
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
04
Letter
ط
ṭāʾ

An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.

Type:'
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
07
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does shantati mean in Arabizi?

shantati is how you write شَنْطَتي in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “my bag”. 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.

How to type it

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 home 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 →
Sequence
  1. 01Aش
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Kن
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05'ط
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Jت
  8. 08Dي
Composedشَنْطَتي
شَنْطَتي
Practice

Type شَنْطَتي until your fingers know it.

Or practice it inside the full Home session, one of sixteen sets in our free Arabic typing practice tool.

Practice just shantatiStart the Home set