mrawa7 مروح

Algerian Darja · adjective

“mrawa7” (مروح) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning on the way home.

Meanings

1. on the way home
2. back home, returned

Usage

Participle of the verb "rawwah", "to go home", very common in Algeria. "Ana mrawwah" means "I'm heading home, I'm on my way back". It is used like a conjugated verb, with a pronoun or a noun as subject, often to announce or place a return: "ki kount mrawwah", "when I was on my way home". The feminine is "mrawha" and the plural is "mrawhin". The reference definition, which makes it a synonym of "foul-smelling", is not confirmed by common usage. The sense of returning home is by far the most widespread.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mrawa7” but also “mrawe7”, “mrw7”, “mrewe7” and “mrawah”. 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 “mrawa7” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “heading home, returning”; “coming back from”: mrawa7 in Tunisian.