3ind jurj
George hasThe word, broken down.
عِنْد جورْج 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 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
What does 3ind jurj mean in Arabizi?
3ind jurj is how you write عِنْد جورْج in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “George has”.
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 — 11 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
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03K→ن
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05]→د
- 06Space→
- 07[→ج
- 08,→و
- 09V→ر
- 10Shift+X→ـْ
- 11[→ج