The Da Vinci (Arabic) code

This is dedicated to all the expats in Kuwait and Middle East who get confused when chatting with their Arab friends. I'm talking about the numbers that are used in place of certain sounds. For example you might see something like this "7alla" or "6alabat". What prompted me to write this post was when one of my friends kept referring to 'Six-al-abat" which makes no sense ! :)

Let me break it down to you

2 = "A"
3 = "Ain"
5 = "Kha"
6= "Tha"
7= "Ha"
9= "Sa"

Update: Soon after posting this I came across this on Yahoo Answers where there's a much more detailed answer from a more knowledgeable person
Yahoo Answers [link]


Update: A reader just sent me an even better link from Wikipedia [link]
Thanks Abid !