sehhel سهّل
Moroccan Darija · verb
“sehhel” (سهّل) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to facilitate, make easy.
Meanings
- to facilitate, make easy
- (God) to grant success
Usage
Sehhel means to make something easy. It is very common in everyday religious phrases: "llah ysehhel" (may God make it easy), said to someone who is leaving or starting work, or to politely turn down a beggar. It takes 3la for the person who benefits: "sehhel 3lina". Pitfall: the adjective sahl (easy) is written the same in Arabic without vowels, but is not pronounced the same way. The corresponding noun is tashil (facilitation).
Example
ربي سهل علينا
rbi sehel 3lina
“God made things easy for us.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kans88el | s88elt | |
| nta (you, m.) | kats88el | s88elti | s88el |
| nti (you, f.) | kats88li | s88elti | s88li |
| howa (he) | kays88el | s88el | |
| hiya (she) | kats88el | s88lat | |
| 7na (we) | kans88lo | s88lna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | kats88lo | s88lto | s88lo |
| homa (they) | kays88lo | s88lo |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sehhel” but also “s88el”, “se88el”, “sahhel”, “sehel” and “sahl”. 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 “sehhel” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to facilitate, make easy”; “to relax conditions for”: sahel in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to make easy”; “(God) to grant success”: sahel in Tunisian.