tashrabin
you drinkThe word, broken down.
تَشْرَبين 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 rolled 'r', closer to Spanish than English.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
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 tashrabin mean in Arabizi?
tashrabin is how you write تَشْرَبين in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “you drink”. 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
- 03A→ش
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05V→ر
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07F→ب
- 08D→ي
- 09K→ن