tafaddali
here you goThe word, broken down.
تَفَضَّلي 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 plain 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke 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.
What does tafaddali mean in Arabizi?
tafaddali is how you write تَفَضَّلي in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “here you go”. 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
- 03T→ف
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05Q→ض
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08G→ل
- 09D→ي