ta3ala
comeThe word, broken down.
تَعالَ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
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 voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
What does ta3ala mean in Arabizi?
ta3ala is how you write تَعالَ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “come”.
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 — 6 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 →- 01J→ت
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04H→ا
- 05G→ل
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “come” is aja (أَجَا). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear aja on Tfaddalu →