2ehhel أهّل
Moroccan Darija · verb
“2ehhel” (أهّل) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to qualify (a team, candidate).
Meanings
- to qualify (a team, candidate)
- to train, make fit for
Usage
2ehhel is used mainly in sports vocabulary, about a team or a squad that advances to the next round. The verb is transitive: it is the goal, the player or the result that "qualifies" the team. To say "to qualify" in the intransitive sense (to get through), use the reflexive form t2ehhel, very common in match commentary: lmontakhab t2ehhel. It comes from Standard Arabic. In a more formal register, it is also found with the meaning "to train" or "to make someone fit" for a post.
Example
هاد الهدف أهّل المنتخب للفينال
had lhadaf 2ehhel lmonta5ab l lfinal
“This goal qualified the national team for the final.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kan2e88el | 2e88elt | |
| nta (you, m.) | kat2e88el | 2e88elti | 2e88el |
| nti (you, f.) | kat2e88li | 2e88elti | 2e88li |
| howa (he) | kay2e88el | 2e88el | |
| hiya (she) | kat2e88el | 2e88lat | |
| 7na (we) | kan2e88lo | 2e88lna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | kat2e88lo | 2e88lto | 2e88lo |
| homa (they) | kay2e88lo | 2e88lo |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “2ehhel” but also “ahhel”, “2e88el” and “ahel”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 2 is hamza (ء), a glottal stop; 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “2ehhel” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “family, parents, relatives”; “people of, inhabitants of”: ahl in Tunisian.