kull ala3dad
all the numbersThe word, broken down.
كُلّ اَلْأَعْداد reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'k'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
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 plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
What does kull ala3dad mean in Arabizi?
kull ala3dad is how you write كُلّ اَلْأَعْداد in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “all the numbers”.
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 — 16 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 numbers 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;→ك
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03G→ل
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05Space→
- 06H→ا
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08G→ل
- 09Shift+X→ـْ
- 10Shift+H→أ
- 11Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 12U→ع
- 13Shift+X→ـْ
- 14]→د
- 15H→ا
- 16]→د