chchouf الشوف
Moroccan Darija · noun
“chchouf” (الشوف) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning sight, vision.
Meanings
- sight, vision
- the act of looking
Usage
Chchouf refers to the faculty of seeing. It is the verbal noun of chaf, ychouf (to see, to look), one of the most frequent verbs in darija. It is used mainly to talk about visual acuity: "chchouf dyali t9al", my eyesight has weakened, or at the ophthalmologist's. It should not be confused with the imperative chouf (look), very common in speech. It is also not used for a landscape, which is rather called mender. The register is everyday.
Example
خاصني نظاظر حيت الشوف ديالي ضعف
khassni ndader 7it chchouf dyali d3af
“I need glasses because my eyesight has gotten worse.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “chchouf” but also “chouf”, “ch-chouf”, “shshouf” and “chchof”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.