wisha7ak
your scarfThe word, broken down.
وِشاحَك 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.
The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'k'.
What does wisha7ak mean in Arabizi?
wisha7ak is how you write وِشاحَك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “your scarf”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
For the rest of the chat alphabet, see 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 clothes 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
- 03A→ش
- 04H→ا
- 05P→ح
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07;→ك