mi3tafik
your coatThe word, broken down.
مِعْطَفِك 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 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
An emphatic 't': heavier and deeper than a plain 't'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'k'.
What does mi3tafik mean in Arabizi?
mi3tafik is how you write مِعْطَفِك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “your coat”.
The 3 stands for ع (ayn): a throaty sound. No clean English equivalent. 3 is a mirrored ع.
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 — 9 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 clothes 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+A→ـِkasra
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05'→ط
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07T→ف
- 08Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 09;→ك