medmen مدمن

Algerian Darja · adjective

“medmen” (مدمن) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning hooked, passionate about.

Meanings

1. hooked, passionate about
2. addicted (drugs, tobacco)

Usage

Medmen comes from Standard Arabic and is commonly used in Algeria with the preposition 3la: rani medmen 3la had el qna (I'm hooked on this channel). In conversation and online comments, it often has a figurative, positive sense, meaning you can't do without a series, a game or a content creator anymore. In its literal sense, it means addiction to a drug or to tobacco. It can then be used as a noun: el medmen (the drug addict). The feminine is medmna.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “medmen” but also “mudmin”, “modmen” and “madmen”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “medmen” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “dependent, addict”; “excessively keen, hooked”: modmin in Moroccan.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “drug addict, dependent”; “hooked, obsessed (informal)”: modmen in Tunisian.