ma7mud
MahmoudThe word, broken down.
مَحْمود 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 plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
What does ma7mud mean in Arabizi?
ma7mud is how you write مَحْمود in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Mahmoud”.
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 family 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+X→ـْ
- 05L→م
- 06,→و
- 07]→د