sa7afi صحفي
Moroccan Darija · noun
“sa7afi” (صحفي) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning journalist.
Meanings
- journalist
Usage
Sa7afi is the usual term for "journalist". It becomes sa7afiya in the feminine and sa7afiyin in the plural. It is used for print press as well as broadcast media. The word is inherited from Standard Arabic, but it is perfectly integrated into everyday usage. Among French speakers, "journaliste" is also heard. Do not confuse it with sa7afa, which refers to the press or to the profession itself, nor with the adjective s7i, "healthy". The most typical construction is khdem sa7afi f…, "to work as a journalist at…".
Example
أنا صحفي, مهنة وحدانية بزّاف.
ana Sa7afi, mihna w7dania bezzaf.
“I'm a journalist, it's a very lonely profession.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sa7afi” but also “sahafi”, “s7afi” and “sa7afiy”. 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 “sa7afi” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “journalist”; “show host or presenter”: sahafi in Algerian.