rkhis رخيص
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“rkhis” (رخيص) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning cheap, inexpensive.
Meanings
- cheap, inexpensive
- cheap, worthless (figurative)
Usage
Rkhis describes what costs little: a product, a bill, a rent. The feminine is rkhisa, the plural rkhas. The comparative is rkhes ("cheaper"): hadi rkhes men hadik. People also say ghla rkhis to contrast expensive and cheap. Figuratively, applied to a person or behavior, the word becomes pejorative and means "worthless, low, vulgar", like English "cheap". So avoid using it about someone unless you mean to put them down.
Example
كاي بانلي رخيص
kay banli rkhis
“That seems cheap to me.”
Forms
| feminine | rkhiSa |
|---|---|
| plural | rkhaS |
| feminine plural | rkhiSat |
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 “rkhis” but also “rkhiss”, “r5is” and “rkhes”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “rkhis” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “cheap, inexpensive”; “low-quality”: rkhis in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “cheap, inexpensive”; “low-value, shoddy”: rkhis in Tunisian.