yarta7u
they rest, restThe word, broken down.
يَرْتاحوا 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.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
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.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
What does yarta7u mean in Arabizi?
yarta7u is how you write يَرْتاحوا in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “they rest, rest”.
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 — 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 health & the body 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
- 03V→ر
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06H→ا
- 07P→ح
- 08,→و
- 09H→ا
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “rest” is baaqi (بَاقِي). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear baaqi on Tfaddalu →