amstirdam
AmsterdamThe word, broken down.
أَمْسْتِرْدام 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 plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
What does amstirdam mean in Arabizi?
amstirdam is how you write أَمْسْتِرْدام in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Amsterdam”. 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 — 13 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 →- 01Shift+H→أ
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03L→م
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05S→س
- 06Shift+X→ـْ
- 07J→ت
- 08Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 09V→ر
- 10Shift+X→ـْ
- 11]→د
- 12H→ا
- 13L→م