muqaddima
front part, forefront, introductionThe word, broken down.
مُقَدِّمة 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 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does muqaddima mean in Arabizi?
muqaddima is how you write مُقَدِّمة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “front part, forefront, introduction”. 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.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 9 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 →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03R→ق
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05]→د
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 08L→م
- 09M→ة
Feminine and plural forms.
Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for muqaddima:
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.