na3am
yesThe word, broken down.
نَعَم reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke 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 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
What does na3am mean in Arabizi?
na3am is how you write نَعَم in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “yes”.
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 — 5 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 →- 01K→ن
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05L→م
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “yes” is 'aa (آه). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear 'aa on Tfaddalu →