7rara حرارة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“7rara” (حرارة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning heat (hot weather).
Meanings
- heat (hot weather)
- temperature, fever
- warmth, passion
Usage
7rara first refers to ambient heat: "kayna l7rara lyoum" (it's hot today). It is the opposite of lberd (the cold). In health contexts, it is used for body temperature, in the sense of fever, alongside skhana, which is more common in that sense. Figuratively, it expresses the warmth of a welcome or of a feeling. The word is feminine and mostly used with the article: l7rara. Do not confuse it with 7err, another way of saying intense heat, especially in exclamations.
Example
كاينا شي حرارة تما؟
kayna chi harara tama?
“Is it hot over there?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7rara” but also “hrara”, “7arara” and “harara”. 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 “7rara” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “heat, high temperature”; “temperature (weather, body)”: 7rara in Tunisian.