ard fla7iya أرض فلاحية
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ard fla7iya” (أرض فلاحية) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning farmland, field.
Meanings
- farmland, field
Usage
Ard fla7iya refers to land that is cultivable or used for agriculture. The expression is fairly formal: it is heard in land sales, administration and the media. In everyday conversation, people more often say just "l-ard", or "l-feddan" for a cultivated field. The adjective fla7iya comes from fellah, farmer, and takes the feminine to agree with ard. A learner will understand the expression easily in real-estate ads or in discussions about inheriting family land.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ard fla7iya” but also “2ard fila7ia”, “ard fla7ia” and “ard filahiya”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 2 is hamza (ء), a glottal stop; 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.