mwesakh موسخ
Algerian Darja · adjective
“mwesakh” (موسخ) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning dirty, unclean.
Meanings
- dirty, unclean
- dishonest, despicable (figurative)
Usage
Mwessakh is the participle of the verb wessakh (to dirty). It describes a dirty object, place or person. It agrees in gender and number: mwessakha in the feminine, mwessakhin in the plural. Figuratively, it is used to judge a person or behaviour harshly: it expresses a lack of morals or civic sense, for example in cha3b mwessakh ("a dirty people") about rubbish left in nature. This figurative sense is pejorative and can hurt. For clothing, you simply say lebsa mwessakha ("a dirty garment"). The word is the opposite of nqi or nqiy (clean).
Example
القشّ تاعك موسّخ، بدّلو
le9ech ta3ek mwessakh, beddlou
“Your clothes are dirty, change them.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mwesakh” but also “mousakh”, “mwessekh” and “mwassakh”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “mwesakh” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “dirty, soiled”; “unclean, untidy (person)”: mossekh in Moroccan.