sahhi صحي
Algerian Darja · adjective
“sahhi” (صحي) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning healthy, good for your health.
Meanings
- healthy, good for your health
- sanitary, health-related
Usage
Sahhi describes what is good for your health: "makla sahhia", healthy food. It is also used in the sense of "sanitary", as in "hajr sahhi", the lockdown, an expression that has become very common. The feminine is sahhia. The word comes from Standard Arabic and is neutral in register, fairly common in the media and in discussions about food. Not to be confused with sahh, "that's true, that's right", nor with saha, "well done" or "cheers/health".
Example
لازم تاكل ماكلة صحية باش تبرا.
lazem takoul makla sahhia bach tebra.
“You have to eat healthy food to get better.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sahhi” but also “sahi”, “sa7i”, “sa77i” and “sahhia”. 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 “sahhi” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “healthy, good for you”; “hygienic, clean”: s7i in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “healthy, good for your health”; “health-related, medical”: sa77i in Tunisian.