tasharrafna
pleasure to meet youThe word, broken down.
تَشَرَّفْنا 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.
The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
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 'f'. One dot above a small loop.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
What does tasharrafna mean in Arabizi?
tasharrafna is how you write تَشَرَّفْنا in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “pleasure to meet you”. 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 — 11 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 greetings & introductions 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
- 03A→ش
- 04Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 07Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 08T→ف
- 09Shift+X→ـْ
- 10K→ن
- 11H→ا