3ali
highThe word, broken down.
عالْية 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 plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does 3ali mean in Arabizi?
3ali is how you write عالْية in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “high”.
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 — 6 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 weather 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
- 03G→ل
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05D→ي
- 06M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “high” is 3aali (عَالِي). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear 3aali on Tfaddalu →