mu3allim
professor, a teacher, teacherThe word, broken down.
مُعَلِّم 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 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
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 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
What does mu3allim mean in Arabizi?
mu3allim is how you write مُعَلِّم in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “professor, a teacher, teacher”.
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 — 8 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 greetings & introductions 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+E→ـُḍamma
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05G→ل
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 07Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 08L→م
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “teacher” is m3allem (مْعَلِّم). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear m3allem on Tfaddalu →