min fadlak
pleaseThe word, broken down.
مِن فَضْلَك 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 plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'k'.
What does min fadlak mean in Arabizi?
min fadlak is how you write مِن فَضْلَك in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “please”. 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 — 11 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+A→ـِkasra
- 03K→ن
- 04Space→
- 05T→ف
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07Q→ض
- 08Shift+X→ـْ
- 09G→ل
- 10Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 11;→ك
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “please” is 'arDa (أَرْضَى). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear 'arDa on Tfaddalu →