ghame9 غامق
Algerian Darja · adjective
“ghame9” (غامق) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning dark (colour).
Meanings
- dark (colour)
Usage
Ghameq is used for colours, meaning "dark", as opposed to fat7 or ftou7, "light". It is placed after the colour name: zre9 ghameq, "dark blue"; khdar ghameq, "dark green". It is used a lot for clothes, paint or skin tone. The feminine is ghamqa, but the invariable form is often kept after the colour name. The word can also stand alone: lloun ghameq, "a dark colour". It is not used in the figurative sense of "gloomy, sad".
Example
شريت قميجة زرقا غامقة
chrit 9amija zar9a ghamqa
“I bought a dark blue shirt.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghame9” but also “ghamek”, “ghamk”, “ghameq” and “ghamaq”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “ghame9” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “dark (colour)”; “dim, poorly lit”: ghamek in Tunisian.