msa7 مسح
Moroccan Darija · verb
“msa7” (مسح) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to wipe.
Meanings
- to wipe
- to erase, delete
- to clean by rubbing
Usage
Msa7 (imperfect ymsa7) first means to wipe: tears, hands, a table. It also means to erase, whether a board, a message or a photo on the phone, and it is very common in this digital sense. The intensive form msse7 stresses the rubbing action of cleaning. To dry oneself after washing, people often say tmssa7. Distinguish this verb from sme7, which means to forgive, as the two look alike when written in arabizi. The derived noun mse7 also refers to the ritual gesture of passing wet hands over something.
Example
سير مسح دموعك
sir mse7 dmou3ek
“Go wipe away your tears.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanms7 | ms7t | |
| nta (you, m.) | katms7 | ms7ti | ms7 |
| nti (you, f.) | katms7i | ms7ti | ms7i |
| howa (he) | kayms7 | ms7 | |
| hiya (she) | katms7 | ms7at | |
| 7na (we) | kanms7o | ms7na | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katms7o | ms7to | ms7o |
| homa (they) | kayms7o | ms7o |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “msa7” but also “mse7”, “ms7”, “msah”, “msse7” and “msh”. 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 “msa7” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to wipe, clean by rubbing”; “to erase, delete”: msah in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “wipe, clean by rubbing”; “erase, delete”: msa7 in Tunisian.