mawqif
stopThe word, broken down.
مَوْقِف 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 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
What does mawqif mean in Arabizi?
mawqif is how you write مَوْقِف in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “stop”. 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 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,→و
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05R→ق
- 06Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 07T→ف