m3a9ed معقد
Algerian Darja · adjective
“m3a9ed” (معقد) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning complicated, complex.
Meanings
- complicated, complex
- uptight, hung-up (person)
- bitter, troublesome
Usage
M3a99ed (m3aqqed) first applies to something complicated: a procedure, a problem, a situation. Applied to a person, it takes a common pejorative sense: someone with hang-ups, uptight, touchy or bitter, who "has complexes". You say "rak m3a99ed" to reproach someone for closed-mindedness or jealousy. The feminine is m3a99da and the plural m3a99din. The noun 3o9da ("complex") and the verb t3a99ed ("to get complicated, to take offence") belong to the same family. It is common in online arguments.
Example
لوراق تاع البلدية معقدين بزاف.
lewra9 ta3 lbaladiya m3a99din bezzaf.
“The town hall paperwork is very complicated.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “m3a9ed” but also “m3a99ed”, “m3aqed”, “mo3a9ad” and “m3aked”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent; 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “m3a9ed” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “complicated, complex”; “hung-up, uptight (person)”: m3e99ed in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “hung-up, full of complexes”; “complicated, complex”: m3a9ed in Tunisian.