ya3ni
means, meanThe word, broken down.
يَعْني reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
What does ya3ni mean in Arabizi?
ya3ni is how you write يَعْني in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “means, mean”.
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 family 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 →- 01D→ي
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03U→ع
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05K→ن
- 06D→ي
Palestinians say this one much like the MSA: ya3ni. Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear ya3ni on Tfaddalu →