ma7atta
stationThe word, broken down.
مَحَطّة 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 breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does ma7atta mean in Arabizi?
ma7atta is how you write مَحَطّة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “station”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
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 — 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 travel & places 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
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05'→ط
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 07M→ة
Palestinians say this one much like the MSA: ma7aTTa. Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear ma7aTTa on Tfaddalu →