cherr شرّ
Moroccan Darija · noun
“cherr” (شرّ) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning evil, wickedness.
Meanings
- evil, wickedness
- misfortune, trouble
Usage
Cherr means evil, both in the moral sense and in the sense of misfortune. It appears in many expressions: llah ykfina cherr ("may God keep us from evil"), bla cherr ("no ill intent"), or bgha lih cherr ("he wishes him harm"). Its opposite is lkhir. The main pitfall is in spelling: in arabizi, cher or sher can also stand for sher, "to stay up late", which is a completely different word. Only context resolves the ambiguity. The word is common at all registers.
Example
مكنبغيش شر لناس
mknbghhich char lnas
“I don't wish harm on people.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “cherr” but also “charr”, “cher”, “shar” and “char”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “cherr” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “evil, what is bad”; “misfortune, danger”: char in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “evil, wickedness”; “misfortune, trouble”: char in Tunisian.