fenn فن
Moroccan Darija · noun
“fenn” (فن) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning art, artistic creation.
Meanings
- art, artistic creation
- skill, special talent
Usage
Fenn means art in general: music, painting, theatre, cinema. With the article, it is "l-fenn", for example in "kay-ḥebb l-fenn" (he likes art). The learned plural "funun" appears in names of institutions or festivals. The word can also mean a skilful way of doing something. So "hadi fenn" is said admiringly of something well done, like "that's art". The register is neutral, shared with standard Arabic. For the adjective "artistic", use fenni.
Example
كيبغي الفن والموسيقى
kaybghi lfenn o lmusi9a
“He likes art and music.”
Forms
| plural | fonoun |
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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 “fenn” but also “fen”, “fann”, “fn” and “fnn”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “fenn” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “art, artistic creation”; “talent, something admirable”: fen in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “art, artistic creation”; “talent, skill”: fen in Tunisian.