bialllugha al3arabi
in ArabicThe word, broken down.
بِالْلُّغة الْعَرَبِيّة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does bialllugha al3arabi mean in Arabizi?
bialllugha al3arabi is how you write بِالْلُّغة الْعَرَبِيّة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “in Arabic”.
The 3 stands for ع (ayn): a throaty sound. No clean English equivalent. 3 is a mirrored ع.
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 — 23 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 numbers 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 →- 01F→ب
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03H→ا
- 04G→ل
- 05Shift+X→ـْ
- 06G→ل
- 07Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 08Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 09Y→غ
- 10M→ة
- 11Space→
- 12H→ا
- 13G→ل
- 14Shift+X→ـْ
- 15U→ع
- 16Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 17V→ر
- 18Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 19F→ب
- 20Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 21D→ي
- 22Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 23M→ة