kull shay'
everythingThe word, broken down.
كُلّ شَيْء 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.
The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A glottal stop, the catch in the middle of 'uh-oh'.
What does kull shay' mean in Arabizi?
kull shay' is how you write كُلّ شَيْء in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “everything”. 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 — 10 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→
- 06A→ش
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08D→ي
- 09Shift+X→ـْ
- 10X→ء