7a99a9 حقق

Algerian Darja · verb

“7a99a9” (حقق) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to fulfill, to grant (a wish, a dream).

Meanings

1. to fulfill, to grant (a wish, a dream)
2. to look closely, to scrutinize
3. to investigate, to question

Usage

7a99a9 is used mostly in wishes and invocations: "rabbi y7a99a9 lek wach t7ab", may God fulfill what you wish for. It is also found with a success or a goal: "7a99a9 nja7 kbir". With the preposition "f", it means to fix one's gaze on, to examine closely: "7a99a9 fih", look at him carefully. The sense of investigating, of questioning someone, belongs rather to the press or the police. The register is neutral. The first sense is close to Standard Arabic; the second is distinctly dialectal.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7a99a9” but also “hakkak”, “7aqqaq”, “ha99a9” and “7akkak”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat; 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “7a99a9” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to achieve, accomplish”; “to investigate, interrogate”: 7e99e9 in Moroccan.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to achieve, to fulfill (a goal)”; “to investigate, to question”: 7a99a9 in Tunisian.