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The word
مُظْلِم

muzlim

dark, becoming dark, black
Arabicمُظْلِم
Arabizimuzlim
Translationdark, becoming dark, black
TypeAdjective
Rootظ ل م
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

مُظْلِم reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

Type:L
02
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u

A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.

Type:Shift+E
03
Letter
ظ
ẓāʾ

An emphatic 'dh', the deep cousin of dhāl.

Type:/
04
Letter
ل
lām
l

A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.

Type:G
05
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
06
Letter
م
mīm
m

A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.

Type:L
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does muzlim mean in Arabizi?

muzlim is how you write مُظْلِم in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “dark, becoming dark, black”. 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.

How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 7 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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Lم
  2. 02Shift+Eـُḍamma
  3. 03/ظ
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Gل
  6. 06Shift+Aـِkasra
  7. 07Lم
Composedمُظْلِم
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for muzlim:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentمُظْلِمmuzlimthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineمُظْلِمةmuzlimafor a feminine subject
Pluralمُظْلِمونmuzlimunfor three or more
مُظْلِم
Practice

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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.