wajjed وجد
Algerian Darja · verb
“wajjed” (وجد) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to prepare, get ready.
Meanings
- to prepare, get ready
- to get oneself ready
Usage
Wajjed means "to prepare": a meal, belongings, a place or a person. It is very common in daily life and is used in the present as ywajjed. To say "to get ready", one says wajjed rouhek ("get ready"), for example before going out or before an exam. The participle mwajjed means "ready, prepared". Be careful not to confuse it with wjad, a Classical Arabic verb meaning "to find", which appears in proverbs quoted as they are but does not have this meaning in darja.
Example
وجّدي الماكلة راهم جايين
wajjdi el-makla rahom jayin
“Prepare the meal, they're coming.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “wajjed” but also “wejjed”, “wajed”, “wjjed” and “wedjed”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “wajjed” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to prepare (a meal, something)”; “to get ready, set up”: wejjed in Moroccan.