mat3am mu7ammad
Mohamed's restaurantThe word, broken down.
مَطْعَم مُحَمَّد 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.
An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A short 'u', written as a small loop 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.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
What does mat3am mu7ammad mean in Arabizi?
mat3am mu7ammad is how you write مَطْعَم مُحَمَّد in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Mohamed's restaurant”.
The 3 stands for ع (ayn): a throaty sound. No clean English equivalent. 3 is a mirrored ع.
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 — 16 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 food & drink 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'→ط
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05U→ع
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07L→م
- 08Space→
- 09L→م
- 10Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 11P→ح
- 12Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 13L→م
- 14Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 15Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 16]→د