a3udd
I countThe word, broken down.
أَعُدّ 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'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
What does a3udd mean in Arabizi?
a3udd is how you write أَعُدّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “I count”.
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 numbers 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+E→ـُḍamma
- 05]→د
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda