dakhm ضخم
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“dakhm” (ضخم) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning huge, imposing.
Meanings
- huge, imposing
- burly, heavyset (person)
Usage
Dkhem, or dakhm, describes something very large or massive: a building, a project, a sum of money. Applied to a person, it describes someone burly or heavyset, without necessarily being negative. The feminine is dkhma. The register is a little more formal than kbir bzaf, which is heard more in everyday speech. It often appears in the media and in business, for example in mchrou3 dkhem, "a large-scale project".
Example
هاد العمارة ضخمة بزاف
Had l3imara dakhma bzaf
“This building is really huge.”
Forms
| feminine | Dakhma |
|---|---|
| plural | Dakhmin |
| feminine plural | Dakhmat |
Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “dakhm” but also “dkhem”, “da5m”, “dekhm” and “dkhm”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.