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Arabizi

Today it means: Arabic written in the Arabic chat alphabet, which uses a combination of Latin letters and Western Arabic numerals. Full definition →

Arabic عَرَبِيزِيّ

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Arabic · borrowed fromعَرَبِيزِيّ
English todayArabizi

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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.