madina lus anjilis
the city of Los AngelesThe word, broken down.
مَدينة لوس أَنْجِلِس 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 plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
What does madina lus anjilis mean in Arabizi?
madina lus anjilis is how you write مَدينة لوس أَنْجِلِس in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “the city of Los Angeles”. 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 — 20 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
- 03]→د
- 04D→ي
- 05K→ن
- 06M→ة
- 07Space→
- 08G→ل
- 09,→و
- 10S→س
- 11Space→
- 12Shift+H→أ
- 13Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 14K→ن
- 15Shift+X→ـْ
- 16[→ج
- 17Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 18G→ل
- 19Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 20S→س