ta3udd
you countThe word, broken down.
تَعُدّ 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 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
What does ta3udd mean in Arabizi?
ta3udd is how you write تَعُدّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “you count”.
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 numbers 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+E→ـُḍamma
- 05]→د
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda