ma'luf
usual, ordinaryThe word, broken down.
مَأْلوف 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 glottal stop carried on an alif.
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 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
What does ma'luf mean in Arabizi?
ma'luf is how you write مَأْلوف in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “usual, ordinary”. 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 — 7 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03Shift+H→أ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05G→ل
- 06,→و
- 07T→ف
Feminine and plural forms.
Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for ma'luf:
The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.