sehd صهد
Moroccan Darija · noun
“sehd” (صهد) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning intense heat, heatwave.
Meanings
- intense heat, heatwave
- heat given off (fire, oven)
Usage
Sehd is the common word for heat, especially the oppressive heat of summer. You say kayn sehd or sehd bezzaf for "it's very hot", and sehd kber for scorching heat. The word is also used for the heat coming from an oven or a fire. For body temperature or fever, skhana is preferred. The opposite is berd (cold). The pronunciation is often emphatic, hence varied spellings such as se8d or sahd, where 8 stands for h.
Example
نتحداك ت تيّب فهاد صهد
nt7edak t teyyeb fhad sehd
“I dare you to cook in this heat.”
Forms
| plural | S8odat |
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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 “sehd” but also “se8d”, “sahd”, “sa8d” and “s8d”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “sehd” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
The same word also exists in Algerian Darja, written الصهد, where it means “intense heat, heatwave”; “stifling heat of a place”: sahd in Algerian.