nhar نهار
Moroccan Darija · noun
“nhar” (نهار) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning day.
Meanings
- day
- daytime, whole day
Usage
Nhar is the common word for "day" in Moroccan Arabic. It appears in many expressions: nhar l-jem3a, "Friday"; chi nhar, "one day"; dak n-nhar, "that day"; nhar kamel, "all day long". It contrasts with lil, "night". The plural is iyyam. Do not confuse nhar with lyum, which means "today". The sense "to collapse" given by some sources belongs to another word, the verb nhar, which comes from Standard Arabic and is rare in speech.
Example
كان نهار صعيب
kan n8ar S3ib
“It was a hard day.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kann8aar | |
| nta (you, m.) | katn8aar | n8aar |
| nti (you, f.) | katn8aari | n8aari |
| howa (he) | kayn8aar | |
| hiya (she) | katn8aar | |
| 7na (we) | kann8aaro | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katn8aaro | n8aaro |
| homa (they) | kayn8aaro |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “nhar” but also “n8ar”, “nehar”, “nhaar” and “n8aar”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “nhar” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “day”; “daytime”: nhar in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “day, daytime”; “one day (unspecified)”: nhar in Tunisian.