wilayathu
his stateThe word, broken down.
وِلايَتهُ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below 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 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
What does wilayathu mean in Arabizi?
wilayathu is how you write وِلايَتهُ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “his state”. 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 — 9 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 travel & places 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 →- 01,→و
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03G→ل
- 04H→ا
- 05D→ي
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07J→ت
- 08I→ه
- 09Shift+E→ـُḍamma