lkhmis لخميس
Moroccan Darija · noun
“lkhmis” (لخميس) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning Thursday.
Meanings
- Thursday
Usage
Lkhmis is the usual word for Thursday. People often say nhar lkhmis, literally "the day of Thursday", but lkhmis alone is enough, with no preposition: lkhmis jay "next Thursday", lkhmis lli fat "last Thursday". The article is part of the word in use. The word also appears in the names of weekly markets and of places named after the souk day. In that case it is a proper noun.
Example
غات مشي ل لسال نهار لخميس?
ghat mchi l lasall nhar lkhmis?
“Are you going to the gym on Thursday?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “lkhmis” but also “l5miss”, “lekhmis”, “lakhmis”, “l5mis” and “lkhemis”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find لخميس and الخميس, all the same word.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “lkhmis” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
The same word also exists in Algerian Darja, written الخميس, where it means “Thursday”: lkhmis in Algerian.