chemsi شمسي
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“chemsi” (شمسي) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning solar.
Meanings
- solar
Usage
Chemsi, feminine chemsiya, is an adjective of a rather learned register, built on chems (the sun). It is found mostly in technical or school expressions: nnidam chemsi (the solar system), ttaqa chemsiya (solar energy), solar panels. In everyday life, people often replace the adjective with a dyal chems construction, for example nwader dyal chems for sunglasses. They also use French words directly, such as the panels or the solar water heater.
Example
ركبنا البلاكات الشمسية فالسطح
rkkebna lplakat chemsiya f sstah
“We installed the solar panels on the roof.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “chemsi” but also “chmsi”, “chamsi”, “chmsy” and “shamsi”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.