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Arabizi

Arabizi proper noun: arabic written in the Arabic chat alphabet, which uses a combination of Latin letters and Western Arabic numerals.

Proper noun

Arabizi

  1. (neologism) Arabic written in the Arabic chat alphabet, which uses a combination of Latin letters and Western Arabic numerals.
    • Writing and typing Arabic using English numbers and letters — Arabizi (spelled 3arabezee) — is raising eyebrows among Arab elders who worry that the excessive use of Arabizi will weaken the Arabic language.2013 May 9, Noor Nazzal, “Arabizi sparks concern among educators”, in Gulf News, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025

Synonyms of Arabizi

Forms of Arabizi

alternative form3arabizi
alternative formArabeezi

Origin of Arabizi

Borrowed from Arabic عَرَبِيزِيّ (ʕarabīziyy), a blend of عَرَبِيّ (ʕarabiyy, “Arabic”) + إِنْكْلِيزِيّ (ʔinglīziyy, “English”). The alternative spelling 3arabizi is the Arabizi rendering of the word عَرَبِيزِيّ (ʕarabīziyy) itself.

Questions about Arabizi

What does Arabizi mean?
Arabizi means arabic written in the Arabic chat alphabet, which uses a combination of Latin letters and Western Arabic numerals.
What part of speech is Arabizi?
Arabizi is a proper noun.

Words near Arabizi in the dictionary

  1. Arabization
  2. Arabizations
  3. Arabize
  4. Arabized
  5. Arabizes
  6. Arabizi
  7. Arabizing
  8. arable
  9. arables
  10. Arabness
  11. Arabo-

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Arabizi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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