naji'
we comeThe word, broken down.
نَجيء reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A glottal stop, the catch in the middle of 'uh-oh'.
What does naji' mean in Arabizi?
naji' is how you write نَجيء in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “we come”. 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.
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.
It sits in the travel & places lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.
Practice typing this word →- 01K→ن
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03[→ج
- 04D→ي
- 05X→ء