da7iyya
victim, sacrificeThe word, broken down.
ضَحِيَّة reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A breathy h from deep in the throat, heavier than an English 'h'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
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.
Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.
The 'tied tāʾ'. It marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
What does da7iyya mean in Arabizi?
da7iyya is how you write ضَحِيَّة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “victim, sacrifice”.
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.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 8 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.
Open the typing practice →- 01Q→ض
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 05D→ي
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 08M→ة
Feminine and plural forms.
Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for da7iyya:
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.