ndhif نضيف
Algerian Darja · adjective
“ndhif” (نضيف) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning clean, neat.
Meanings
- clean, neat
- decent, clean (content, behavior)
- great, well done (informal)
Usage
Ndhif (nḍif) means "clean". Online, it is very often written with ض instead of ظ, and Algerian pronunciation in fact merges the two sounds. In its basic sense, it is used for a place, clothes or a person: el dar ndhifa (the house is clean). It also describes what is morally acceptable: contenu ndhif (content without vulgarity). Among young people, it can be used as approval, roughly like "spot on, awesome". The feminine is ndhifa, the plural is ndhaf. Do not confuse it with the verb form "we add", which is spelled the same in Standard Arabic.
Example
الدار نضيفة اليوم
ed-dar ndhifa el youm
“The house is clean today.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ndhif” but also “nadif”, “ndif”, “nedhif” and “nadhif”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “ndhif” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “clean, spotless”; “neat, well-kept”: ndif in Moroccan.