dokhan دخان
Moroccan Darija · noun
“dokhan” (دخان) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning smoke.
Meanings
- smoke
- cigarette smoke
Usage
Dokhan means smoke in general: from a fire, a kitchen, an exhaust pipe or a cigarette. It is most often used with the article: "ddokhan". For example, "tle3 ddokhan" means "smoke rose". For the act of smoking, this noun is not used but the verb kma, ykmi: "kaykmi" means "he smokes". Incense and fumigation belong rather to bkhour and bekhkher. Dokhan does not commonly mean "tobacco" in Morocco, which is more often tabagh, or garro for a cigarette.
Example
نقدرو نخدمو ب دخان باش نتواصلو ف شيفرة ديال مورس.
n9dro nkhdmo b dokhan bach ntwaslo f chifra dyal Morse.
“We can use smoke to communicate in Morse code.”
Forms
| plural | dkhakhen |
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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 “dokhan” but also “dkhan”, “dukhan”, “do5an” and “d55an”. 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 “dokhan” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “cigarettes, tobacco”; “smoke”: dokhan in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “smoke”; “tobacco, cigarettes”: do5an in Tunisian.