ta3bana
tiredThe word, broken down.
تَعْبانة 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 plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does ta3bana mean in Arabizi?
ta3bana is how you write تَعْبانة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “tired”.
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 — 8 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 family 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
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05F→ب
- 06H→ا
- 07K→ن
- 08M→ة
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “tired” is ta3baan (تَعْبَان). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear ta3baan on Tfaddalu →