wilayatik
your stateThe word, broken down.
وِلايَتِك 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 short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'k'.
What does wilayatik mean in Arabizi?
wilayatik is how you write وِلايَتِك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “your 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
- 08Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 09;→ك