7it حيط
Moroccan Darija · noun
“7it” (حيط) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning wall.
Meanings
- wall
Usage
7it means the wall of a house, a room or a fence. It is used with the article: l7it. The common plurals are 7yout and 7itan. It appears in expressions like dreb rasek m3a l7it (bang your head against the wall), for a futile effort or a dead end. The image of "running into a wall" also exists, as in French. Beware of the homograph in Latin letters with 7it, "because": only context distinguishes the two words.
Example
إلا بقينا هاكّا, غادي ندخلو ف شي حيط, مافيها شك
ila b9ina hakka, ghadi ndkhlo f chi 7iT, mafiha chek
“If we keep going like this, we're going to hit a wall, no doubt about it.”
Forms
| plural | 7yoT |
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Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7it” but also “7ayt”, “hit”, “7ayet” and “7et”. 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 “7it” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “wall”: 7it in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “wall”; “dead end (dkhal fi 7it)”: 7it in Tunisian.