meftou7 مفتوح

Moroccan Darija · adjective

“meftou7” (مفتوح) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning open.

Meanings

1. open
2. light (colour)
3. open-minded, frank

Usage

Meftou7 is the passive participle of fte7, "to open". It describes a door, a window, a shop or an office: "l7anout meftou7a?", is the shop open? For colours, it means "light": "zre9 meftou7", light blue, as opposed to megħlou9 or ghame9, dark. Applied to a person, it means open-minded or someone who hides nothing. The feminine is meftou7a and the plural meftou7in. The usual opposite in the basic sense is msedd or mgħlou9, closed.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “meftou7” but also “maftou7”, “mftou7”, “maftouh” and “meftouh”. 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 “meftou7” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “open (door, shop, container)”; “open, available (registration, account, donations)”: maftouh in Algerian.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “open”; “welcoming, open-minded”: maftou7 in Tunisian.

How to say “open” in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian