ta3allaqa
to be suspended, to do superficially, to slur overThe word, broken down.
تَعَلَّقَ 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 short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A deep 'k', made far back in the throat.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
What does ta3allaqa mean in Arabizi?
ta3allaqa is how you write تَعَلَّقَ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “to be suspended, to do superficially, to slur over”.
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 — 9 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01J→ت
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05G→ل
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 08R→ق
- 09Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.