yaakul
he eats, eatsThe word, broken down.
يَأْكُل 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 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.
What does yaakul mean in Arabizi?
yaakul is how you write يَأْكُل in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “he eats, eats”. 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 — 7 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 →- 01D→ي
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03Shift+H→أ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05;→ك
- 06Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 07G→ل