The word
ضَجّة
dajja
noiseArabicضَجّة
Arabizidajja
Translationnoise
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
ضَجّة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ض
ḍād
ḍ
An emphatic 'd'. Arabic is called 'the language of the ḍād'.
Type:Q
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
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+`
05
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a
The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.
Type:M
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
How to type it
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 5 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01Q→ض
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03[→ج
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05M→ة
Composedضَجّة