da'iman
alwaysThe word, broken down.
دائِماً reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
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 glottal stop carried on a dotless yāʾ.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Adds an '-an' ending (two slanted strokes above).
What does da'iman mean in Arabizi?
da'iman is how you write دائِماً in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “always”. 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 — 7 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 descriptions 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 →- 01]→د
- 02H→ا
- 03Z→ئ
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05L→م
- 06H→ا
- 07Shift+W→ـًtanwīn fatḥ
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “always” is daayman (دَايْمًا). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear daayman on Tfaddalu →