lawn
colorThe word, broken down.
لَوْن reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
What does lawn mean in Arabizi?
lawn is how you write لَوْن in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “color”. 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 — 5 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 →- 01G→ل
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03,→و
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05K→ن
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “color” is lown (لَوْن). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear lown on Tfaddalu →