sbe7 صبح

Moroccan Darija · noun

“sbe7” (صبح) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning dawn prayer (sobh).

Meanings

1. dawn prayer (sobh)
2. dawn, early morning

Usage

With the article, s-sbeh mainly refers to the dawn prayer, the first of the five daily prayers. You say sella s-sbeh, "he performed the dawn prayer". The word also refers to the time of dawn: m3a s-sbeh, "at dawn". Do not confuse it with sbah, "the morning" in the broad sense, as in sbah l-khir, "good morning". There is also a related verb, sbeh, which means "to find oneself in the morning": sbeht mrid, "I woke up sick".

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sbe7” but also “sob7”, “sobh”, “sbeh” and “sbh”. 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 “sbe7” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

The same word also exists in Algerian Darja, written صباح, where it means “morning”; “dawn prayer”: sbah in Algerian.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “dawn prayer”; “dawn, daybreak”: sob7 in Tunisian.