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The word
جَذّاب

jadhdhab

attractive, attracting powerfully
Arabicجَذّاب
Arabizijadhdhab
Translationattractive, attracting powerfully
TypeAdjective
Rootج ذ ب
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ج
jīm
j

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

Type:[
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ذ
dhāl
dh

The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.

Type:`
04
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

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

Type:Shift+`
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā

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

Type:H
06
Letter
ب
bāʾ
b

A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.

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

What does jadhdhab mean in Arabizi?

jadhdhab is how you write جَذّاب in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “attractive, attracting powerfully”. 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 — 6 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. 01[ج
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03`ذ
  4. 04Shift+`ـّshadda
  5. 05Hا
  6. 06Fب
Composedجَذّاب
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

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

FormArabicArabiziUse
Masculine · currentجَذّابjadhdhabthe base form, for a masculine subject
Feminineجَذّابةjadhdhabafor a feminine subject
Pluralجَذّابونjadhdhabunfor three or more
جَذّاب
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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.