khrif خريف
Moroccan Darija · noun
“khrif” (خريف) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning autumn, fall.
Meanings
- autumn, fall
Usage
Lkhrif is the common name for autumn. It is used mostly with the article and in phrases such as "f lkhrif" (in autumn). It denotes the season of the first rains and cooler weather after summer, and serves as a marker for agriculture and the start of the school year. The other seasons are rbi3 (spring), sif (summer) and chta (winter, which also means "rain"). The usual pronunciation is khrif, shorter than kharif in Standard Arabic.
Example
فالخريف كيبدا البرد شوية.
f lkhrif kaybda lbard chwiya.
“In autumn it starts getting a bit cold.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “khrif” but also “kharif”, “5rif” and “khrife”. 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 “khrif” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “autumn”: khrif in Tunisian.