ruzz 3umar
Omar's riceThe word, broken down.
رُزّ عُمَر reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop 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 rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
What does ruzz 3umar mean in Arabizi?
ruzz 3umar is how you write رُزّ عُمَر in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Omar's rice”.
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 — 10 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 food & drink 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 →- 01V→ر
- 02Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 03.→ز
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05Space→
- 06U→ع
- 07Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 08L→م
- 09Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 10V→ر