ma7faza
walletThe word, broken down.
مَحْفَظة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
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 plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
An emphatic 'dh', the deep cousin of dhāl.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does ma7faza mean in Arabizi?
ma7faza is how you write مَحْفَظة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “wallet”.
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 — 8 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 home 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 →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05T→ف
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07/→ظ
- 08M→ة
Egyptians say this one much like the MSA: ma7faZa. Our sister app Bel Masri teaches the Egyptian dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear ma7faZa on Bel Masri →