atta3arruf 3ala
to meet, meetingThe word, broken down.
اَلْتَّعَرُّف عَلى 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 short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
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 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
What does atta3arruf 3ala mean in Arabizi?
atta3arruf 3ala is how you write اَلْتَّعَرُّف عَلى in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to meet, meeting”.
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 — 18 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 jobs & work 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
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03G→ل
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08U→ع
- 09Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 10V→ر
- 11Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 12Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 13T→ف
- 14Space→
- 15U→ع
- 16Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 17G→ل
- 18N→ى