mosta7il مستحيل
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“mosta7il” (مستحيل) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning impossible.
Meanings
- impossible
- out of the question
Usage
Mosta7il is very common. It is used alone as an exclamation ("mosta7il!", impossible!) or followed by a conjugated verb: "mosta7il nmchi" (it's impossible for me to go). The word is also used to refuse firmly, in the sense of "out of the question". It hardly changes for gender. Watch out: with a negated verb, the sentence becomes a strong affirmation. So "mosta7il manreb7ouch" means "we are bound to win". Online, it is sometimes written with 9 instead of 7, by confusion.
Example
راه مستحيل مانربحوش هاد الماتش
rah mosta7il manreb7ouch had lmatch
“It's impossible that we won't win this match.”
Forms
| feminine | mosta7ila |
|---|---|
| plural | mosta7ila |
Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mosta7il” but also “mousta7il”, “musta7il” and “mosta7iil”. 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 “mosta7il” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “impossible, unfeasible”; “no way, out of the question”: mosta7il in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “impossible”; “no way!, never!”: mosta7il in Tunisian.