7o9o9 حقوق
Moroccan Darija · noun
“7o9o9” (حقوق) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning rights (legal, social).
Meanings
- rights (legal, social)
- royalties, copyright fees
Usage
7o9o9 is the plural of 7e99, used mainly in a legal or activist sense: 7o9o9 l2insan (human rights), 7o9o9 lmra (women's rights), 7o9o9 l3ommal (workers' rights). The register is fairly formal and the word comes from standard Arabic, but it is very common in the media and in discussions. A law faculty is called kolliyat l7o9o9, and a law student says he does l7o9o9. For "what is owed to you" in the concrete sense, the singular is used instead: 7e99ek.
Example
خاصنا ندافعو على حقوقنا
khassna ndaf3o 3la 7o9o9na
“We must defend our rights.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7o9o9” but also “7o9ou9”, “hoqouq”, “7ou9ou9” and “huquq”. 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; 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “7o9o9” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “rights”; “law (field of study)”: 7ou9ou9 in Algerian.