7amda حامضة
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“7amda” (حامضة) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning sour, acidic (feminine).
Meanings
- sour, acidic (feminine)
- bad, tense (situation)
Usage
7amDa is the feminine of 7amD. It agrees with a feminine noun: a fruit (rmmana, "pomegranate"), a sauce, a drink with an acidic taste. In the figurative, colloquial sense, you hear l7ala 7amDa to say that the situation is bad, that business is slow or that the mood is tense. This figurative sense only appears with words like l7ala or with life in general. It should not be confused with l7amD, the lemon.
Example
هاد الرمانة حامضة بزاف
had rrmmana 7amDa bzzaf
“This pomegranate is very sour.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7amda” but also “hamda” and “7amdha”. 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.