9edd قد
Moroccan Darija · noun
“9edd” (قد) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning size, dimension, measure.
Meanings
- size, dimension, measure
- as much as, as big as
Usage
9edd refers to the size or stature of a thing or person: 9eddu 9eddi, "he is my size". It is used mainly for comparison: 9edd + noun means "as big as, as much as", for example 9eddha 9edd l3edsa, "as big as a lentil". Mab9a 9edd mafat means "what remains is less than what has passed". Do not confuse it with the verb 9add, which has the same Arabic spelling and means "to arrange, prepare, make": 9add lfrach, "to make the bed", or sir 9add 7altek, "go and get yourself ready". The two are told apart by context and construction.
Example
قدها قد العدسة
9dha 9ed l3edssa
“She is as big as a lentil.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “9edd” but also “9ed”, “9ad”, “9dd” and “qedd”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “9edd” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “size, measure”; “as much as (qedd ma)”: qed in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “the size of”; “size, measure”: 9ad in Tunisian.