skhana سخانة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“skhana” (سخانة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning fever.
Meanings
- fever
- heat, warmth
Usage
Skhana is the usual word for fever. It is constructed with fi: fiya skhana (I have a fever), fih skhana (he has a fever). One can also say tal3a lih skhana (his fever is rising) or hbtat skhana (the fever has gone down). The word also refers more broadly to heat, of the body or of an object. It is often associated with other symptoms, such as sekhfa (malaise, dizziness) or l-berd (the cold, chills). An English speaker may take fiya literally as "in me": it is simply the normal construction for expressing a symptom.
Example
سخانة مابغاتش تهبط
skhana mabghatch thbt
“The fever won't go down.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “skhana” but also “s5ana”, “sekhana”, “sskhana” and “s5ona”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “skhana” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “fever”; “intense heat, heatwave”: s5ana in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “fever”; “heat (weather, room)”: skhana in Tunisian.