mossekh موسّخ
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“mossekh” (موسّخ) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning dirty, soiled.
Meanings
- dirty, soiled
- unclean, untidy (person)
Usage
Mmousekh is the participle of the verb wessekh, "to dirty". It describes an object, garment, place or person that is not clean: lhwayej mmousekhin, "the clothes are dirty". It agrees: mmousekha in the feminine, mmousekhin in the plural. Its usual opposite is nqi, "clean". The word is an everyday, neutral one. Applied to a person, it can become pejorative depending on the tone. The verb twessekh, "to get dirty", and the noun wsekh, "dirt", are also heard. The doubled initial m is audible in speech, but many people write it with a single m.
Example
سروالك موسّخ، بدّلو
serwalek mmousekh, beddlou
“Your trousers are dirty, change them.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mossekh” but also “mmossekh”, “mousekh”, “mwessekh” and “mmousekh”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “mossekh” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “dirty, unclean”; “dishonest, despicable (figurative)”: mwesakh in Algerian.