bialddabt
exactlyThe word, broken down.
بِالْضَّبْط 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 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.
What does bialddabt mean in Arabizi?
bialddabt is how you write بِالْضَّبْط in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “exactly”. 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 — 11 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 clothes 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+A→ـِkasra
- 03H→ا
- 04G→ل
- 05Shift+X→ـْ
- 06Q→ض
- 07Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 08Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 09F→ب
- 10Shift+X→ـْ
- 11'→ط
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “exactly” is tamaam (تَمَام). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear tamaam on Tfaddalu →