mu7adatha
conversation, talkThe word, broken down.
مُحادَثة 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 breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
The 'th' in 'think'. Three dots above the body.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does mu7adatha mean in Arabizi?
mu7adatha is how you write مُحادَثة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “conversation, talk”.
The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.
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.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01L→م
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03P→ح
- 04H→ا
- 05]→د
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07E→ث
- 08M→ة
Feminine and plural forms.
Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for mu7adatha:
The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.