qed قد
Algerian Darja · noun
“qed” (قد) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning size, measure.
Meanings
- size, measure
- as much as (qedd ma)
- equal, of the same size
Usage
Qedd, often pronounced "gedd", means size or measure: "qeddi" (my size), "qedd-ach ?" (what size? how much?). The phrase "qedd ma" means "as much as": "dir qedd ma tqder" (do as much as you can). "Qedd qedd" means "the same, on an equal footing". It is often used for clothes, ages or quantities: "qeddou" (he is my age, he is my size). Pitfall: do not confuse it with the Standard Arabic particle "qad" ("already, perhaps"), which is not used in spoken Darja.
Example
هاد السروال قدّي
had sserwal qeddi
“These trousers are my size.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “qed” but also “gedd”, “ged”, “qad” and “9ad”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “qed” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “size, dimension, measure”; “as much as, as big as”: 9edd in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “the size of”; “size, measure”: 9ad in Tunisian.