ustadh
a professor, professor, teacherThe word, broken down.
أُسْتاذ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.
What does ustadh mean in Arabizi?
ustadh is how you write أُسْتاذ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “a professor, professor, teacher”. 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 — 7 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 descriptions 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 →- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03S→س
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06H→ا
- 07`→ذ
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “teacher” is m3allem (مْعَلِّم). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear m3allem on Tfaddalu →