attilfaz
TV, the television, televisionThe word, broken down.
اَلْتِّلْفاز 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 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.
What does attilfaz mean in Arabizi?
attilfaz is how you write اَلْتِّلْفاز in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “TV, the television, television”. 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 — 12 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 home 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+A→ـِkasra
- 08G→ل
- 09Shift+X→ـْ
- 10T→ف
- 11H→ا
- 12.→ز