jaddati
my grandmotherThe word, broken down.
جَدَّتي reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
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 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
What does jaddati mean in Arabizi?
jaddati is how you write جَدَّتي in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “my grandmother”. 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 family 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[→ج
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03]→د
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 06J→ت
- 07D→ي