Arabic / العربية
At a glance
Three Snooze-related terms in Due are being revisited in Arabic. The proposals aim to make the three terms read as clearly distinct from each other, and from Reminder / Repeat (which are already used elsewhere in the app).
| English | Currently | Proposed |
|---|---|---|
| Auto Snooze | غفوة تلقائية | إلحاح تلقائي |
| Snooze | غفوة | unchanged |
| Notification Snooze | إشعارات الغفوة | غفوة الإشعارات |
Skim the proposals, then jump to What I’d like to know for the questions — or read on for full context.
Due is a reminder/timer app that nudges you when a task is due. If you don’t react, Due can keep nudging every few minutes — that’s a feature called Auto Snooze.
Auto Snooze is separate from Repeat (the recurrence schedule, e.g. every Monday at 9 AM). A reminder can have both: “Pay school fees on the last day of every month” with Auto Snooze of 5 minutes. This means the reminder will fire monthly (Repeat), and if you don’t act, Due keeps nudging every 5 minutes (Auto Snooze) until you mark it done.
Due has existing translations for these terms for many years. However I’d like to revisit them to improve on their clarity.
In English, ‘Snooze’ is well understood in the context of an alarm clock where you temporarily stop the alarm and it’ll sound again about 10 minutes later. However, in many other languages, ‘Snooze’ can just mean a nap.
Due also uses the word ‘Snooze’ in three different contexts — Auto Snooze, Snooze, and Notification Snooze. They do different things, so we need three distinct Arabic words to distinguish them clearly.
Side-by-side
Only Auto Snooze and Notification Snooze are changing in Arabic. The bare Snooze button stays as غفوة (see reference table).
| English in Due | Existing Translation | Proposed New Translation | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto Snooze | غفوة تلقائية | إلحاح تلقائي | The app keeps reminding you every few minutes until you respond |
| Notification Snooze | إشعارات الغفوة | غفوة الإشعارات | A Settings page where users configure which snooze durations are offered when snoozing a reminder from a notification |
These proposals are tentative — strong alternative suggestions are very welcome.
Other Arabic terms already used in Due (for reference)
These words are already used by the app to refer to various features. They must not be reused for the translations of Auto Snooze or Notification Snooze. I am not planning on changing these terms. They are listed for your reference.
| English in Due | Arabic in Due | What it refers to |
|---|---|---|
| Reminder | تذكير / التذكيرات | The to-do items the user creates |
| Repeat | تكرار | Recurrence schedule (e.g. every Monday at 9 AM) |
| Snooze | غفوة | The Snooze button in notifications, the Snooze Duration label in Settings → Prominent Alerts, and the editor toolbar’s ‘Snooze: 5 min’ subtitle |
Why غفوة for Snooze? It’s Apple’s term across iOS — Clock, Calendar, Reminders, Sleep — even though it literally relates to napping. iOS-in-Arabic users will already recognize it from Apple’s own apps. Open to challenge if there’s a strong reason to break from Apple.
Where each appears in the app
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Auto Snooze
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Snooze
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Notification Snooze
What I’d like to know
| # | Decision |
|---|---|
| 1 | Auto Snooze: stick with غفوة تلقائية or move to إلحاح تلقائي? Any unwanted overtones in your dialect? |
| 2 | Notification Snooze: stick with إشعارات الغفوة or move to غفوة الإشعارات? |
| 3 | Snooze stays as غفوة (Apple-aligned). Does it work for a notification action button? |
| 4 | Suggest anything else? |
Details on each below.
- Auto Snooze — is the proposed إلحاح تلقائي better, worse, or about the same as the existing غفوة تلقائية? Does إلحاح carry any unwanted overtones (e.g. ’nagging’ / ‘pestering’) in your dialect?
- Notification Snooze — is the proposed غفوة الإشعارات better, worse, or about the same as the existing إشعارات الغفوة?
- Snooze button stays as غفوة — Apple’s iOS term, even though it literally relates to napping. Does it still work for a notification action button on a reminder, or would something else read better? (If you suggest a replacement, the same word would also be used for the Snooze Duration label in Settings and the editor’s ‘Snooze: 5 min’ subtitle.)
- If none of the proposed terms work, what would you suggest instead? The translated term doesn’t need to literally mean ‘auto’ or ‘snooze’ — for example, the Chinese translation just means ‘Keep reminding’. Just don’t reuse تذكير or تكرار — those are used for other things in the app.
Final check — try translating this in Arabic
Here’s a quick self-check that’s really useful: try translating the three steps below into Arabic using the proposed terms. The 5 terms (Reminder, Repeat, Auto Snooze, Snooze, Notification Snooze) should all read as clearly distinct, with no ambiguity between them. If the translation reads cleanly, the proposals are working. If you find yourself reaching for a different word to keep things clear, that’s a useful signal — please share what you reached for instead.
- Create a Reminder for 9 AM. Tap Repeat and choose Daily — Due reminds you at 9 AM every day.
- Turn on Auto Snooze at Every 5 Minutes — Due keeps alerting until you complete the reminder.
- When the reminder fires, you can also Snooze it from the notification (using the Notification Snooze durations from Settings).
Send feedback
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