al3iraq
IraqThe word, broken down.
الْعِراق reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
What does al3iraq mean in Arabizi?
al3iraq is how you write الْعِراق in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Iraq”.
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 travel & places 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 →- 01H→ا
- 02G→ل
- 03Shift+X→ـْ
- 04U→ع
- 05Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 06V→ر
- 07H→ا
- 08R→ق