a3tini
give meThe word, broken down.
أَعْطِني reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
What does a3tini mean in Arabizi?
a3tini is how you write أَعْطِني in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “give me”.
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 — 8 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 food & drink 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 →- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05'→ط
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07K→ن
- 08D→ي