dayekh دايخ
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“dayekh” (دايخ) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning dizzy, light-headed.
Meanings
- dizzy, light-headed
- dazed, worn out
- drunk, high
Usage
Participle of the verb dakh, ydoukh ("to feel dizzy"). The feminine is daykha and the plural daykhin. It is said of a person whose head is spinning: rassi dayekh. It is also used for someone who is exhausted, disoriented or overwhelmed by what they are going through. In colloquial speech, it can also refer to a person who is drunk or high, and the context is usually enough to resolve the ambiguity. It does not correspond to the French "étourdi" in the sense of absent-minded.
Example
راسي دايخ من الشمش
rassi dayekh mn chemch
“My head is spinning from the sun.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “dayekh” but also “dayakh”, “daye5” and “dayekhe”. 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.
Type “dayekh” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “dizzy, light-headed”; “exhausted, worn out”: dayekh in Tunisian.