taakulin
you eatThe word, broken down.
تَأْكُلين 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 glottal stop carried on an alif.
A plain 'k'.
A short 'u', written as a small loop above the letter.
A plain 'l'. A tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
What does taakulin mean in Arabizi?
taakulin is how you write تَأْكُلين in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “you eat”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.
New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: 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.
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
- 03Shift+H→أ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05;→ك
- 06Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 07G→ل
- 08D→ي
- 09K→ن