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The word
حاجّ

7ajj

pilgrim, especially to Mecca
Arabicحاجّ
Arabizi7ajj
Translationpilgrim, especially to Mecca
TypeNoun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

حاجّ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ح
ḥāʾ

A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.

Type:P
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.

Type:H
03
Letter
ج
jīm
j

A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.

Type:[
04
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does 7ajj mean in Arabizi?

7ajj is how you write حاجّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “pilgrim, especially to Mecca”.

The number in 7ajj
7ح

The 7 stands for ح (ḥa): a breathy h, deeper than English h. 7 bends the way ح bends.

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.

How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 4 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

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Sequence
  1. 01Pح
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03[ج
  4. 04Shift+`ـّshadda
Composedحاجّ
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for 7ajj:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentحاجّ7ajjthe base form, for one
Pluralحاجّون7ajjunfor three or more
حاجّ
Practice

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.