ma3a assalama
goodbyeThe word, broken down.
مَعَ الْسَّلامة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
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 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does ma3a assalama mean in Arabizi?
ma3a assalama is how you write مَعَ الْسَّلامة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “goodbye”.
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 — 15 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 greetings & introductions 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 →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05Space→
- 06H→ا
- 07G→ل
- 08Shift+X→ـْ
- 09S→س
- 10Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 11Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 12G→ل
- 13H→ا
- 14L→م
- 15M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “goodbye” is ma3-salaame (مَع السَّلامِة). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear ma3-salaame on Tfaddalu →