sa7ili ساحلي

Moroccan Darija · adjective

“sa7ili” (ساحلي) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning coastal, of the coast.

Meanings

1. coastal, of the coast

Usage

Sa7ili describes what lies by the sea: lmdina ssa7iliya (the coastal city), tri9 ssa7iliya (the coastal road). The word comes from the standard register and appears mostly in the media, weather reports and tourism. The feminine is sa7iliya and the plural is sa7iliyin. In everyday speech, people more readily say "7da lb7ar" (near the sea) or "3la lb7ar". It can also be a family name, in which case it is capitalized.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sa7ili” but also “saa7ili”, “sahili” and “sa7iliya”. 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 “sa7ili” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “from the Tunisian Sahel”; “of the Sahel, coastal”: sa7li in Tunisian.