3amalha
her workThe word, broken down.
عَمَلها 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 short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
What does 3amalha mean in Arabizi?
3amalha is how you write عَمَلها in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “her work”.
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 — 7 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 descriptions 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
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03L→م
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05G→ل
- 06I→ه
- 07H→ا