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The word
شاشة

shasha

screen, monitor
Arabicشاشة
Arabizishasha
Translationscreen, monitor
TypeNoun
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ش
shīn
sh

The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.

Type:A
02
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
03
Letter
ش
shīn
sh

The 'sh' in 'ship'. Three teeth with three dots above.

Type:A
04
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ'. It 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.
Arabizi

What does shasha mean in Arabizi?

shasha is how you write شاشة in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “screen, monitor”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: 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.

Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.

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Sequence
  1. 01Aش
  2. 02Hا
  3. 03Aش
  4. 04Mة
Composedشاشة
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

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

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentشاشةshashathe base form, for one
Pluralشاشاتshashatfor three or more
شاشة
Practice

Type شاشة until your fingers know it.

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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.