sda3 صداع
Moroccan Darija · noun
“sda3” (صداع) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning noise, racket.
Meanings
- noise, racket
- headache, hassle
- quarrel, trouble
Usage
Sda3 primarily means annoying noise, a racket: "bla sda3" (without noise, without making trouble). By extension, it covers anything that wears on the head: worries, complications, quarrels. "Fih sda3" or "fiha sda3" is said of a noisy or tiresome person, or of a complicated matter. The related verb is sedda3, to deafen, to annoy: "sedda3tini!" (you're driving me crazy!). The word is colloquial and very common. For a headache in the medical sense, people usually say "ras kaydorrni".
Example
سمعت شي صداع
sma3t chi sda3
“I heard some noise.”
Forms
| plural | Sda3at |
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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 “sda3” but also “sdaa3”, “ssda3” and “sdaa3e”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “sda3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “bother, hassle”; “noise, racket”: sda3 in Algerian.