natamanna
we hopeThe word, broken down.
نَتَمَنّى 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 plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'm'. A small round head with a tail.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
What does natamanna mean in Arabizi?
natamanna is how you write نَتَمَنّى in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “we hope”. 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 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
- 03J→ت
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05L→م
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07K→ن
- 08Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 09N→ى