yasta7imm
he showers, showersThe word, broken down.
يَسْتَحِمّ 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 plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
What does yasta7imm mean in Arabizi?
yasta7imm is how you write يَسْتَحِمّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “he showers, showers”.
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 — 10 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 daily routine 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
- 03S→س
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07P→ح
- 08Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 09L→م
- 10Shift+`→ـّshadda