da3if
weak, slim, fitThe word, broken down.
ضَعيف reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
What does da3if mean in Arabizi?
da3if is how you write ضَعيف in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “weak, slim, fit”.
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 — 5 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01Q→ض
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04D→ي
- 05T→ف
Feminine and plural forms.
Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for da3if:
The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.