ba3d azzuhr
in the afternoon, this afternoonThe word, broken down.
بَعْد اَلْظُّهْر reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
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 short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
An emphatic 'dh', the deep cousin of dhāl.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
What does ba3d azzuhr mean in Arabizi?
ba3d azzuhr is how you write بَعْد اَلْظُّهْر in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “in the afternoon, this afternoon”.
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 — 16 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 hobbies 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 →- 01F→ب
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05]→د
- 06Space→
- 07H→ا
- 08Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 09G→ل
- 10Shift+X→ـْ
- 11/→ظ
- 12Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 13Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 14I→ه
- 15Shift+X→ـْ
- 16V→ر