matbakh
kitchenThe word, broken down.
مَطْبَخ 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 plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
The throaty 'kh', like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
What does matbakh mean in Arabizi?
matbakh is how you write مَطْبَخ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “kitchen”. 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.
It sits in the home 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
- 05F→ب
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07O→خ
Palestinians say this one much like the MSA: maTbakh. Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear maTbakh on Tfaddalu →