akul
I eatThe word, broken down.
آكُل reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A long 'aa': an alif with a wave on top that stretches the vowel.
A plain 'k'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
What does akul mean in Arabizi?
akul is how you write آكُل in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “I eat”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.
New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: 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 — 4 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+N→آ
- 02;→ك
- 03Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 04G→ل