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The word
يُشاهِد

yushahid

he watches
Arabicيُشاهِد
Arabiziyushahid
Translationhe watches
TypeMasculine verb
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

يُشاهِد reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ش
shīn
sh

The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.

Type:A
04
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
05
Letter
ه
hāʾ
h

A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.

Type:I
06
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
07
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does yushahid mean in Arabizi?

yushahid is how you write يُشاهِد in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “he watches”. 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.

How to type it

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 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 →
Sequence
  1. 01Dي
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03Aش
  4. 04Hا
  5. 05Iه
  6. 06Shift+Aـِkasra
  7. 07]د
Composedيُشاهِد
يُشاهِد
Practice

Type يُشاهِد until your fingers know it.

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