mu3allimi
my teacherThe word, broken down.
مُعَلِّمي 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.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
What does mu3allimi mean in Arabizi?
mu3allimi is how you write مُعَلِّمي in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “my 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 — 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 family 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
- 09D→ي