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The word
ضَجّة

dajja

noise
Arabicضَجّة
Arabizidajja
Translationnoise
TypeFeminine noun
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

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.

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Sequence
  1. 01Qض
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03[ج
  4. 04Shift+`ـّshadda
  5. 05Mة
Composedضَجّة
ضَجّة
Practice

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