ba'i3
vendorThe word, broken down.
بائِع 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 long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A glottal stop carried on a dotless yāʾ.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
What does ba'i3 mean in Arabizi?
ba'i3 is how you write بائِع in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “vendor”.
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 — 5 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 food & drink 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
- 02H→ا
- 03Z→ئ
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05U→ع