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The word
بَريطانِيّ

baritani

British person, British, Briton
Arabicبَريطانِيّ
Arabizibaritani
TranslationBritish person, British, Briton
TypeNoun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

بَريطانِيّ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

Type:F
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
05
Letter
ط
ṭāʾ

An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.

Type:'
06
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
07
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
08
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
09
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
10
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does baritani mean in Arabizi?

baritani is how you write بَريطانِيّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “British person, British, Briton”. 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.

How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 10 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

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Sequence
  1. 01Fب
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05'ط
  6. 06Hا
  7. 07Kن
  8. 08Shift+Aـِkasra
  9. 09Dي
  10. 10Shift+`ـّshadda
Composedبَريطانِيّ
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for baritani:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentبَريطانِيّbaritanithe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineبَريطانِيَّةbaritaniyyafor a feminine subject
Pluralبَريطانِيّونbaritaniunfor three or more
بَريطانِيّ
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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.