7seb حسب
Algerian Darja · verb
“7seb” (حسب) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to count, calculate.
Meanings
- to count, calculate
- to think, consider as
- according to
Usage
Hseb / yahseb first means "to count": money, days, points. In the figurative sense, it means "to believe" or "to take for". Hsebtek mcha ("I thought you had left") and yahseb rouhou ("he thinks he's somebody") are very common expressions. The same root gives hsab ("account") and the expression ma 3andou hsab ("it doesn't count"). The preposition hasab ("according to"), frequent in writing and in comments, belongs to a more formal register. Note: in writing without vowels, the verb form and the preposition look the same.
Example
حسبت الدراهم وما لقيتهمش كاملين
hsebt drahem w ma lqithomch kamlin
“I counted the money and it wasn't all there.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7seb” but also “hseb”, “hsab”, “7sab” and “hsebt”. 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.
Type “7seb” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to count, calculate”; “to consider, think”: 7seb in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to count, calculate”; “to think, consider”: 7seb in Tunisian.