3a'ilatik
your familyThe word, broken down.
عائِلَتِك reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A glottal stop carried on a dotless yāʾ.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'k'.
What does 3a'ilatik mean in Arabizi?
3a'ilatik is how you write عائِلَتِك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “your family”.
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 — 9 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 greetings & introductions 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 →- 01U→ع
- 02H→ا
- 03Z→ئ
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05G→ل
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07J→ت
- 08Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 09;→ك