maghribi
MoroccanThe word, broken down.
مَغْرِبِيّ 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 gargled 'r', like the French 'r'. Like ʿayn, with a dot above.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
What does maghribi mean in Arabizi?
maghribi is how you write مَغْرِبِيّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Moroccan”. 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 — 10 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
- 03Y→غ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07F→ب
- 08Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 09D→ي
- 10Shift+`→ـّshadda