sechwar سشوار

Moroccan Darija · noun

“sechwar” (سشوار) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning hair dryer.

Meanings

1. hair dryer

Usage

Sechwar is the adapted loanword from French "séchoir". It is the usual word for a hair dryer, at home as well as at the hairdresser's. It is masculine: sechwar jdid (a new hair dryer). It is used with the usual verbs for the appliance: ch3el sechwar (turn on the hair dryer), tfi sechwar (turn it off). At the hairdresser's, "dir sechwar" or "brushing" means drying with styling. Note that the word does not mean a clothes dryer, which is called something else. Pronunciation varies between sechwar and sachwar depending on the speaker.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sechwar” but also “sachwar” and “sechouar”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “sechwar” on the Arabic keyboard