l7ed الحد
Moroccan Darija · noun
“l7ed” (الحد) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning Sunday.
Meanings
- Sunday
Usage
This is the common name for Sunday in Morocco. It is used with the article (l7edd), often preceded by nhar ("day"): nhar l7edd. Here are the usual phrases: l7edd jjay (next Sunday), l7edd lli fat (last Sunday), 7tta l l7edd (until Sunday). Sunday is the usual day of rest. The word is also used in the names of many weekly souks, like "Had" followed by a place name. Beware of the homograph l7add, "the limit", which is written the same in Arabic but pronounced differently depending on context.
Example
نهار الحد هوا الروبو ديالي
n8ar l7edd 8owwa rroppo dyali
“Sunday is my day off.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “l7ed” but also “l7ad”, “l7edd”, “lhed” and “lhad”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.
Type “l7ed” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “Sunday”; “limit, boundary”: lhad in Algerian.