hezz هزّ
Moroccan Darija · verb
“hezz” (هزّ) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to lift, carry.
Meanings
- to lift, carry
- to take, bring along
- to pick up (the phone)
Usage
The verb hezz is very common. It first means to lift or carry something: hezz had sendoq (lift this crate). In everyday use, it mostly means "to take" or "to bring along": hezz sswarat (take the keys), hezz m3ak (take it with you). With the phone, hezz ttilifun means to pick up or take one's phone to make a call. It is also used figuratively: hezz rasek (hold your head up). Present tense: kanhezz, katehezz. The imperative is hezz, plural hezzu.
Example
هزّ لقرعة فليدّ لوخرا
hezz l9er3a flidd lokhra
“Pick up the bottle with your other hand.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kan8zz | 8zzit | |
| nta (you, m.) | kat8zz | 8zziti | 8zz |
| nti (you, f.) | kat8zzi | 8zziti | 8zzi |
| howa (he) | kay8zz | 8zz | |
| hiya (she) | kat8zz | 8zzat | |
| 7na (we) | kan8zzo | 8zzina | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | kat8zzo | 8zzito | 8zzo |
| homa (they) | kay8zzo | 8zzo |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “hezz” but also “hez”, “8ezz”, “8zz” and “hz”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “hezz” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to carry, to lift”; “to take, to take along”: hez in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “carry, take away, take along”; “lift, raise”: hez in Tunisian.