si3r
price, a priceThe word, broken down.
سِعْر reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
What does si3r mean in Arabizi?
si3r is how you write سِعْر in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “price, a price”.
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 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 →- 01S→س
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “price” is si3er (سِعِر). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear si3er on Tfaddalu →