yadhhab
he goes, goesThe word, broken down.
يَذْهَب reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
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.
The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
What does yadhhab mean in Arabizi?
yadhhab is how you write يَذْهَب in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “he goes, goes”. 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 time 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 →- 01D→ي
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03`→ذ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05I→ه
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07F→ب