muzzafa
employee, an employeeThe word, broken down.
مُوَظَّفة 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 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
An emphatic 'dh', the deep cousin of dhāl.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does muzzafa mean in Arabizi?
muzzafa is how you write مُوَظَّفة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “employee, an employee”. 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 — 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
- 03,→و
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05/→ظ
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08T→ف
- 09M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “employee” is muwaZZaf (مُوَظَّف). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear muwaZZaf on Tfaddalu →